The Infinity Coil

“The Infinity Coil” sounds cool

but it really only extends as

far as my imagination lets it.

Like all adequate SciFi ideas

it functions as a metaphor that

mines for a deeper meaning as 

the curious eye skitters along the 

surface of the paperback’s cover 

reveling in the exoticized illustration.

Aliens are never really alien, btw.

They are aspects of ourselves

that we project onto the universe.

This projection returns to land

in an empty field and thrill us with 

mysterious means and motives,

fascination with their inscrutability

reflecting our own lack of insight

into the problem of being human

as we see through a glass darkly.

***