FRAGILE ELEGANCE

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Up! Up!
Higher! Higher!

Away from the tangles of this worldly attachment,
the sun-principle beckons forth the life-stuff from its inertial and leaden steady state.

Onward! Forward! Upward!

The God-dragon prods its machine, its instrument.
Squealing, squeaking, squawking,
the crustacean manifests its stubborn resistance.

Cranking, grinding, groaning,
metal against metal-bone against bone.
Lifeless matter is tormented out of its slumbering peace;
into crystalline and fragile elegance.