Transdimensional Recalibration

 by shaun lawton

 Here we are amidst a vast recalibration 

shifting throughout the major complex

 of interconnecting networks that have

 so gradually evolved over time together 

there remain a countless variety of conjoined 

aspects, some of which take on a new life

 of their own while others calcify or petrify

 into corroded husks and are sloughed off 

like an industrial snakeskin left to rust in the sun.

 

    The atomic radiation from the center 

of our solar system continues to flare on 

every day the living empire of Earth survives. 

The dominant species marauding the surface 

and skimming over the taut rippling skin 

of the oceans like a particularly vulnerable

 sort of water spider continues to both subvert 

and improve upon its mistakes and achievements

 as if surfing a churning continuum of chaotic 

opportunity and chance filled with too many risks 

to successfully manage. 

One wink.

 by shaun lawton

  This must be what Frankenstein's monster felt like when electricity coursed through his veins, awakening him to the sensations of being wholly incorporated into the flesh. Not unlike a deadening of the membranes before taking on too much voltage at once.  The calamity of life staring back from the mirror gets exposed in the darkness of our expanding pupils, deep within which we can see a diminishing hallway with doors receding deep into a vanishing point which merges the endless hallway of doors into a sort of rosary chain of diminishing spots until darkness blinks it all out.