Step 1) Observe
The atmosphere thick,
we could feel the rain,
almost hear it coming...
While waiting it was only fair
to summarize the bottom line
for the accountant that doesn't
count fiction, the paperbackless
bookkeeper-maths read or black
not grey matters.
He is given by charitable donation,
two whole words he's never reconciled
to the penny, namely Time and Memory.
Step 2) Hypothesize
Balancing Proust, with pi and infinity,
he admires my interest in chaos theory
from afar
thunder marches up the mountains,
finches scatter in the meadow below,
this feels like dark matter I imagine
filling in corners, spackle, sealing gaps-
clearly, this thinning and spreading
cannot be considered conservation...
Step 3) Test
The moon inches away,
Orion loosens his belt,
in this Age, the ewer overflows its rim-
we notice displacement-
forgetting about the rain and rising water
all around us.
Step 1) Observe
The mind may be mysterious
most simply because we do not have time
to solve definitively for X.
Some sentences add up facts, like Faulkner
in august, Proust in jest, all the rest in pieces
to be recalled, summoned as messages
for the neuroscientists
who seek the spark of dendrites in lights,
detonations via regional locations,
wondering why we memory...
Step 2) Hypothesize
It is Situational Awareness.
This is a problem for space
and here I stand pinned
on this arrowless ray, today
marking my words
for later...
Step 4) Conclude
Those slippery days, segments of totality
some times get away.
We are irrational and grateful
gravity is given without question.
Photo credit By NASA on The Commons (Barbara Askins, Chemist) [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons.
"(1978) NASA hired Barbara S. Askins, a chemist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, in 1975 to find a better way to develop astronomical and geological pictures. In 1978, the Association for Advancement of Inventions and Innovations named her the National Inventor of the Year for her invention of a process that restored detail to underexposed negatives that would otherwise be useless. In 1978, Barbara Askins patented a method of enhancing the pictures using radioactive materials. The process was so successful that its uses were expanded beyond NASA researchers to improvements in X-ray technology and in the restoration of old pictures"
