Chaos Theory

            Chaos Theory

You cannot see Medusa in the dawn.

There has to be a certain darkness for

That nebula, part of the antiphon

Of Gemini, to raise its purple tenor

Curls, twists, to start to sing its melody

Made up of misty tresses,  pulsing light,

A song first heard before moons might agree,

Before the oldest sons of God were bright.

There has to be a darkness for this shape

Of hazy amethyst to chant its word,

For monstrous myth, an evanescing grape

With poison juice to make its music heard.

  Surrounding it are galaxies of choirs

    Performing notes of self-consuming pyres.