reflux

a jagged tear
in this gossamer
thin membrane

which will not seem to open
gracefully, subtly,
on its own

now it is rent with sudden force
like a torn envelope,
it releases it's contents--
saltwater, red with iron

so they may return to the ocean,
the menstrum from which they arose,
and the sky,
the vapors from which they condensed

and at last the crystalline aggregates
can dissociate again
free from life's bondage
and the structures it imposes