celebrate

celebrate

Celebrating requires composure.
Love compresses the chest
like a roller coaster
but the routine of life makes a hero.
Cerebral the permutations:
the factorial describes an algorithm
of going through all,
from an insight and long effort
till all systems check.
Celebrate the factorial, celebrate
the liftoff of understanding of the atmosphere of Mars.
Cybernetic the logarithm of chance.
The bright exhaust,
cherish the new eyes
and bow to maintain composure.
The glowing ring,
the widening field,
the contribution space.


--- [updated July 3, 2019]

[circle of light]

***

within a little circle of light
a stack of books
dark leaves of a plant
a keyboard

within me
a little circle of light


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from around 1997? Probably later, I don't remember.

notebook

notebook

What does a twelve-years-old have in his notebook --
Three sketches of trees,
a tall tree by the road,
a broad tree by the river,
and a trunk with insides burnt out.
The first half-page of a would-be novel
that takes place on Mars.
Drawings of rockets.
A panel for a role playing adventure
laying out the menus, and a smallish
viewing pane, for immersion
and because smaller pictures to draw.
A couple of pages of the immense task
to provide the map of an ancient world.
In the navy blue cover -- a spare pen,
and in the side pockets
empty microscope slides,
a couple of specimen,
a folded note.
There is also something
between the cover and the copybook.
A love letter to a fictitious recipient
explaining that it does not matter.
There are many blank pages left
of the grid paper's Cartesian coordinates.





---9 III 2020
Minor edit (simplified and moved a reference to geometry to the last line).