Pristine by Candlelight
By Craig Kirchner
The miracle of life
and its peculiarities
can wake one in the
middle of the night.
Like a dream,
freezing itself solid,
its magnificence,
its mass, crystallizing,
day by day, year by year,
can thaw as sudden as
a summer storm.
And yet the majesty
remains, to kindle
like the mystery of flame,
to leap gelatinous heat,
consume the air we breathe,
to conceive absurdities
of Heaven, and of Hell.
Craig Kirchner loves the aesthetics of writing, has a book of poetry, Roomful of Navels, and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart. He has been published in Chiron Review, Abraxas, The Wise Owl, Main Street Rag and more than 100 others. He houses 500 books in his office and about 400 poems on a laptop; these words help keep him straight. Craig can be found at Bluesky.