Sunday, April 8, 2018

id est (in other words)



The ink pot solidified
in the -unpreventable- evaporation
of
all things
considerable.

Words were
the only way we could try
to grasp the conceptual -framework-
of the time
it takes
to become
a person, place or thing.

Of late,
it is more common than not
to notice the disappearance of
what
seems -indescribable- where only by means
of observation
could we conserve our precious
resources.


Artwork by Hugo Charlemont in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

STEM cells


Being a woman, it took a lot of courage
The kind that clenches your abdomen
Like menstruation,
And then it was only once, not monthly. 
I once asked a cosmologist
about his poetic tendencies, I thought I caught
a glimmer, it was in fact, a pungent reaction.
The mere concept was rejected as any preposterous old electron
Would be out of line. Needless to say, the hypothesis was
Brushed off like the free radical
I was standing there, circling him
And trying to get in-closer.
I was the chicken laying an egg,
Peeking inside his paradox.

In hindsight, it was foolish,
Asking an astrophysicist, a theoretical one, anyway
About his propensity with words, metaphorically,
In lieu of his numerical potency,
Silly me, little lady.
Considering I am entitled to (k)no(w) facts,
In my female tone, I displayed
A type of  indiscretion, often a woman’s way

Of adding verbs to scientific theory.  



Photo credited to National Photo Company; c. 1919, Restored by Adam Cuerden [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bulbous


The earth slows down
just enough to focus on a handle
as if made for us,
made for touching and gauging
the sum of all things
with the unbearable lightness of possessing nothing
earnestly.
Time flies, hope levitates, spines flex in-
tensely repulsing gravity
just to keep up-
right
after the fact, I heard back home
the mighty oaks had toppled on perfect-
ly calm days,
the redwoods, however, stood their ground.
Meanwhile,
down here, the passiflora
already swallowed the fence
and now nibbles away at the eave.
On this evening
the colors come too quick to name.
It was
the tulips
we were expecting
to Spring,
the wait was too much to hold still.
Over centuries,
it has been discovered
our heads have become rounder.
When I look harder
it seems like
Venus' belt is shrinking.




Painting by Franz Werner Tamm [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Friday, March 30, 2018

Global warming Returns


There was fire reflected in his eyes,
and though he had been so kind lately,
been treating me tenderly,

it all shattered 
in the calm evening 
after dinner was served and the dishes were done.

There was no wind but things carried. 

He screamed at me 
from the doorway, from deep in his diaphragm,
‘Get Out Now!’

And I thought he was angry at me 
for a flashing moment-I felt
enraged-by the tone.
I noticed, however,
his face was glowing-not from
the evening sunset.

My eyes went south-
east, thirty feet tall, 
a basket of burning serpents
squirmed atop a roof and were licking  the sky,
devouring a tree,
the roof next door is on fire! 

A black plume expands like dye in water,
like a volcano that erupts before projecting 
sound.

In the long hot silence, 
before the sirens in the distance, 
my heart
strains to find a steady rhythm amidst
the pops, cracks and snaps. 

The cats are hiding, children are 
lining the street filming,
hoses are flowing anemic,
I am frozen in place.

I think of how we just survived the flood.

When the fire finally died, 
we waited for the third
and last
good Friday before we may rise and shine
only to be born again
on Sunday. 



Painting by George Hitchcock c. 1904, 'Easter Sunday' in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Line by line


Life unfolds this way,
the face now resembles our grey matter
what is inside comes out.

The clouds will unravel again,
you can hear the wind 
moving them along.
I am done
telling others to listen.

Paper, then. My life. Drawn to fire.
All those the people carrying dead burdens
on their cracking lips.
They burned books
into their memories and cauterized the wounds
with chanting and invocations
shaped to sound like smoke rings
they read the signs.

As with people and colors
they gather but do not become,
one another,
as with clouds, the heaviest fall
and we say we needed rain.

In these conditions
the symbols bleed together
and it is red
Open.




Painting by Emile Claus, c. 1898, 'Ampelio, old fisherman of Bordighera', in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Scientific Methodology: Poetic Method


"Science should be poetry, and poetry science."
Para-phrased:
"Science is the organized, systematic enterprise that gathers knowledge about the world and condenses the knowledge into testable laws and principles,"
“Likewise with independent investigations, the same phenomenon is sought.”

1.) Fundamentally, to be known, trusted, retold and in order to be 
added as ammunition to the cannon, revolving on the poetic or scientific roster,
we need more than one (time), we need repetition (in science), practice and reproduction (imagination and readymades), and so on, and so on…

2.) the economy, indeed, it is most necessary.
I wholeheartedly agree, employing a simultaneity
of elegance and condensery-ing less into more, more or less...
(i.e. the largest amount of information with the least amount of effort)
Yes, go on.

3.) Strength, the virility, most importantly,
must be consistent in some-such-way,
creating a co-mensuration between 
not bang and emergence,
fourth, and forth.

4.) The spewing of more than we knew we had.
The best of which inspires the search for more.

And finally-fifthly
5.) Consilience, he says, is the one way to be
profound with words.

Experimental,
science and art shared the words
methodology and madness,
we have seen 
the singularity as abstract art. 

The weight 
of the line
was the same.
A ton of feathers
still won't fly without direction.



(based on the book ‘Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge’ by E.O. Wilson pg. 58)


Drawing By Wilson, E.O. (1985). "Ants From the Cretaceous and Eocene Amber of North America". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 92 (2–3): 205–216. DOI:10.1155/1985/57604. (Psyche: A Journal of Entomology) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Saplings


Not a lack of empathy could turn us-
or the inability to love the ‘other’-
rationally,
we small rats.
It separates us.
A green miasma seeping up
from the loamy soil.
Familiar, like family, the smell of our
(grand) Father.
Toes curl and cringe and yet
we knew all about decomposition,
slanging dirt on white walls,
shit that flies and flows downhill.
We recognize, collectively
all information is absorbed,
the leaves in turn
throw shade.

Dark times don't always dictate
a Virgil. This time,
we were early.
It only takes a conceit to break
sacred ground.
All this diurnal mist adds up
and seeps in-
to crystal beads made for
costume jewellery
to be strung across
the sky.

There were stars
where pupils should be.

Scurrying mice and men gather
blind,
feeling their way away
from a threat that smelt like a fresh
grave.
All information is recreated
to be fertile today.

It stinks making fresh air.




Painting by Tom Roberts [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Tres (trace)

Water Today, warm raindrops glass blurs, the blurry glassy, sharp sparkles sugar. Behind Evening, it was good. Leaves all turned into shadow...