"Out of the ether of other up there"

Snow All snowflakes are based on the hexagon Yet are mathematically unique Through considerable variation As the variation of me and you Though those who know snow generally speak Of certain common patterns of design Due to such factors as temperature Causing varietals like those of wine With snow itself the crystal clear and pure As old as time and yet forever new Mathematics descending down the air Out of the ether of other up there The snow we know and the snow we do not Snow we remember and snow we forgot All of it all of it always will be As the variation of you and me Through considerable variation A pattern in this case a hexagon Dance of the atoms to the rhythm of What all have in common and some call love And all have in common what is most rare Never discovered because always there Were it not forgotten it would be gone Taken for granted to oblivion But it is everything and everywhere As the variation of me and you Mathematically descends the stair Through considerable variation As old as time and yet forever new Beyond as behind us urging us on Out of the ether of other up there +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMIX