Stephanie Smith
Geometry
The moon glides by on ice skates
across a frozen sky
Everything here is crystalline
Still and perfect
like geometry
An entity
that has known this world for eons
Known its secrets
It whispers equations in the night
The sky is full of stars
Fractals like snowflakes
singing songs of time gone by
A lullaby
of symmetry and serenity
A memory
that haunts the universe forever
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Stephanie Smith is a poet and writer from Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Horror Zine, Aphelion, Raven Cage, Liquid Imagination, and Illumen.
Author’s Comments/Backstory: Looking up at the clear, Winter sky at night, I can almost feel the coldness of space. This poems evokes the waking dream of synesthesia and the Pythagorean idea of the “music of the spheres.” I become lost in its mathematics, a voice heard in a language I yearn to decode.
Editor’s Notes: Fractal snowflakes image is provided for educational purposes (courtesy of Ice Fractals). Visit their website to further explore (https://icefractal.com/articles/mandelbrot/). “The Mandelbrot fractal is like the digits of pi. It goes on forever but gets harder to compute the further you go.”