July 2025 Editor's Choice: "Jelly Bean Universe"

could I simply be a sun melted jellybean?

minuscule molecule swimming infinite swamps

foraging flotsam resembling raw origins of life

my dense concentration of absorbent amoeba

only primordial burgoo from a planetary womb

a dream soul confined to microbial elements

short seasoning to a universe savory for later

cast away of candy colors caught up in comets

lit up like a menial melon slice of manic moon

eclipsing yet another big explosion expansion

when all cosmos pieces come together again

to form more human minds alien to the future

limited only by local telescopes of imagination

© MATT ELMORE

U.S.