Reduction

Public Domain

See them on screen, reduced

in senses, conjoined

grazing in grade

throughout all dreams

in frayed concentration

 

slivers of sound

spliced in at night

roses and garnet

piercing the edges

puncturing barriers

 

edging toward silence

speaking in hollow form

sleeping envisioned

in communique

 

They came with me, aligned

with scars in the sky

peddling the trope

remembrance in fragments

scattering the loss

 

seedlings rot down

implant decay

sewn into rations

inverted in frame

brandishing iron

 

in razed forgiveness

the stir of forgotten

scarring in morning

first waking light

 

MM 8.2020

Surveyor's Prayer

Young Diffraction - Thomas Young 1803 - Public Domain

Burrowing math toward a core

tunnels turn back toward their origins

seeking light from passing inward

illuminating fractured symmetry

 

Daylight is an arc toward this

context in service of time’s decay

the alignment of age pushing and pulling

of body leveraging weight

 

What we conceived lies waiting

in mocking continuums flash red lights

blinking in solemn arrangements

beyond all order within their patterns

 

The landscape surveys ground beneath them

drawing out this subterranean

assortments of colors and numbers

laying them down throwing away pieces

 

Without concern nor conviction

nor acknowledgement to leverage the whole

practicality washes away its grounding

debris amasses the wash downstream

 

MM 7.2020