July 28, 2019, 4:47 p.m.

shadow box

wonder systems

Procrastination is a pursuing
of two goals at once
like an unobserved photon.
Routine is the holding
of a polarized filter with which
one collides determinately.
Oh only if we did not
hold out these obstacles
for ourselves, could we enjoy
an unbounded existence?
Systems speak with our mouths
so we bloom where we thought
experiment, keep secrets fertile
in the gap between methods
and Methods, while Nature's peer
reviewers the vultures wait
for us to join.

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