Thunder Snow

by Xavier Vagus

The flexed embryo proboscis seed

clenches photons
swathed like cream in coffee soil 
 
rainbow sprinkles speckle
blueberry scoops
of electric juice that squeeze through troughs of goo
and power into stacks that multiply
charged synthesis until they mushroom 
and pound the stratosphere like popcorn rockets
 
cracks and wrinkles creek across
the baked sand face
daggers of lightning connect the drizzled icing
 
phosphorescent glows
in the snowfall
release miniature candies like
the digitized code of starfish podia 
 
then relinquish force
and dissipate into the cake of hope
extinguishing unnoticed
rising again unannounced
driving a dart of surprised purity
flowing to bliss 
 
until the crown bursts into oblivion
and leaves the afterimage of a heart

Thunder Snow originally appeared in The Cat and the Oriole