Crack in the Sidewalk

Spiral lives like onions
each layer holding tears
until all layers become one.

The collapse into singularity
follows an irregular pattern
like the impossible bumblebee emerging
from a fractal snowflake.

Across turbulent oceans
the listening serpent
once heavy with death
sheds his skin.

Two souls adrift in chaos
like hermit crabs
each new nautilus shell
a beginning and a forgetting
no matter how distant, still
strange attractors.