Golem Dream

A flame burning inside of a chrysalis
but without heat
Both hibernating and exploding

Skitters or scuttles like a badly built robot
wound too tight

Both here and there at once
Capable of asking intimate questions

Sometimes like marbles in a jar
gleaming and even picked at random perfectly matched

Sometimes like a agitated frog

plopping on any available lily pad

Both inside and outside
A coded catalog of sense

references scrolling down the brain

A pulsing colored fog with glittering fingers

The noise that has no origin or endpoint
diegetic and rehearsed
Inquisitive but not acquisitive
A billboard bearing photorealistic painted fruit

As grandiose as a tiny cactus
and as prickly and as rarely blooming

Empty but overstuffed
A flexible mesh glazed in honey