More Lovely than a Golden Spiral
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The chambered nautilus propels his shell
Through nighttime waves. He sails much longer than
His cousins, octopus and squid. The swell
Of his internal spaces helps him span
The decades of his living. Swirls move through
Black iridescence of internal years.
His shape jets hummingbird-like through the blue
Pacific but at depths of dark, dark spheres.
His ever-growing nacre walls would glow.
The loveliness, this architecture of
His reveries of height, wants gleams below
The tides. He bears a long-time pearly love.
He floats and presses through the ocean streams
With almost glowing eyes and shining dreams.
~ Phillip Whidden