Paradisal Glimpse Poem by Patrick Frazier

The blue crystal caves
Beneath heaven's waves
Where many a supernatural fisherman bathes

Water like melted rubies
And diamond fish that flicker
Catching one, like Proteus
Release to see the visions

A boy healer running through a gate
Under a halo like an eclipse
Drawing images out of sadness
As he reads its pools and streams

Gathering around an immortal soldier
Battered and near oblivion
That a fiery chariot brought in.