From Go Figure, which will be published this month by Wesleyan University Press.

“were molecular machines
operating on
energy freely
available from
such sources as
thermodynamic
processes.”

It sounds so benign
when you put it
like that.

Our earliest ancestors
were accelerants.

They ate change.
Where does that leave us?

*

Do I believe
that formulating
a problem
in the starkest
possible way
while making strange
and conspicuous
word choices
is helpful?

What if the answer
is no?

*

Ladybug, ladybug,
fly away home.

Your house is on fire.
Your children