we talk of automation
but mean this closing
attention do not enter
this data-paved field refuse
accept or barter fluency
to argue seams the twilit
flowers if good enough
without you can be kept.

on transpiling
walls of cones and corridors
of slack we carried some
arguments one drops of courtesy
another remembers strictness
of a new country where
old motions mean differently
or not at all.

what replaces sugar
a sweetness
you didn't choose. choices
which ease nothing.

work still furling on
the shop floor us it holds
a thing formless it needs
in writing method cousins
lost long in the index.