Welds.


For Jamie 5-8-98
At last we know the perfect shape, the sphere
Is bounded by the nutshells of the skull.
And you, so eloquent when you were here
Are mute as death now, Yorick-like, and dull.
Your voice curtailed, imagination botched
Your vision chopped, and skteches balled and scotched.

Tell me: Icosohedronically,
Are they closing spheres, hunkering, locked
Or cracking chrysalises, budding metal?
The welds have held, in tension chemically
But equal panels burst unequally.