One snowflake

a single giant snowflake tilts
and drops out of the sky
the six points rotate slowly
suggesting an intelligent eye

despite a radius that reaches wide
its thickness is wafer thin
spreading a single thought of lace-- unassuming and intricately woven

from the height of seven watersheds
to the blue waters beyond
this eponymous disk
settles like a medicine wand

i sought to decipher a perimeter
navigate the edges of its wheel
but i was confounded by the signature
a scripted code would not reveal

 

Jeffrey Riordan Hinich, Copyright 2006