Crossbeam

an optician runs a light over

a butterfly, enmeshed with

mulch.

a shaft of light emitted from

forest ground, that the sun 

knows nothing of.

no more prescient.

than a birdcage flung unto

a wire over an intersection.

its dome rushing its base, its

base rushing its dome.

a lattice of bars that are struck

as they strike.

hung against the contrastive sky

of Giorgione's: The Tempest.