a nightmare ascending
descending
spinning up and down
too far to reach ground,
whirling into the dark, sinking
below the light,
feeling the cold and
coiling perspective, the
winding vision,
high/low
destruction --
whirlpool, tornado, hurricane
swirling wings fling outward from
the core
an eye, a galaxy,
a solitary universe,
creation --
remnants of the start, markings
of a beginning, a source,
the point of fire ignited,
conflagration, eruption
encompassing mass, energy, space
and the apparent absence
of all three
a black hole
form within the formless