“ultra-mega”
by Brian Varchmin
“ultra-mega”
controller of
the spying eye
invisible preceder
ever undying
top from
the bottom
direct what’s within
dynamic stasis
of opposite twins
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There’s something almost hypnotic about this poem. It feels like it’s pointing at a presence that’s both inside us and far beyond us. The lines are so stripped down that each one lands like a small jolt. “Controller of the spying eye” stayed with me — it sounds like a force that sees everything but never shows its own face. And the idea of an “invisible preceder” gives the poem this eerie sense of something always one step ahead. The tension between top and bottom, inner and outer, makes the whole piece feel like it’s turning itself inside out. What really caught me was “dynamic stasis,” because it captures that strange balance where opposites hold each other in place. The poem is tiny, but it opens a big space in the mind. It’s the kind of thing you read twice just to feel that quiet charge again.