Concurrent proofs
“Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
“Natural languages always involve a certain amount of noise that impinges upon the essentiality of the information.”
–Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenium (“Multiplicity”, “Exactitude”)
“. . . Here we are, without a doubt, still having doubts!”
–Wang An-Shih (1021-1086)
I.
External messages complicate woven patterns—trade routes change
as people change, as substance moves outward to peripherals
II.
Hands steady
on the trembling,
ongoing attempts
to find the
word
as route
III.
Growth circles expand,
synthetic threads
looped loosely
around sign posts
Hands reach
through interior
net, the shape
and texture
of Deep Space
IV.
Aerial perspective: air,
water, smoke, millions
of molecules crowd the skyline
of light, agitative
illusion
What truth, what proof,
travels deep in molecular
wavering