Fractal

By: Savannah Voth

spore pulsing

in fertile dark

dark-eyed junco nesting in lilies

fern nesting in fern nesting in fractal

curled selfward in a repetition

that is, to the naked eye, endless

identity matrix

how the tree is calculus and also river,

green deltas unfurling blue to infinite limits

nova contained in a footstep

orthogonal shift, universe born

complete

with orbits and orange and dizzying endlessness,

beetles

and mold beneath the flowerpot