Resemblance

Resemblance by Michael R. Burch

Take this geode with its rough exterior --

crude-skinned, brilliant-hearted ...

a diode of amethyst -- wild, electric;

its sequined cavity -- parted, revealing.

Find in its fire all brittle passion,

each jagged shard relentlessly aching.

Each spire inward -- a fission startled;

in its shattered entrails -- fractured light,

the heart ice breaking.

Originally published by Poet Lore