things will ripen slowly

things will ripen slowly

1.

you are reading this, hello

2.

i am studying variables

we are points on a graph

3.

relatively

nature is

not a linear equation

crammed with blazing comets,

staggering, collapsing stars

our separate inverse elements

cause paths that crisscross

effect paths that parallel

4.

scions account for bodies

of water, struck limbs of trees

standing invitations,

ovations, ovulations

come, i see

rhythm, goodness

5.

imagining myself

a closed circuit,

aerial luminous emotion

electricity strikes

i am lightning too

like you, yes

there are sparks

6.

unexpected and undeveloped static

rudimentary incomplete normalcy

intimate magnetic phenomena

wait.

not hurdles, this is a cadence
protected by intervals

the nights & days are still between us

hushed with distributed labor
and worries, magnified imperfections

7.

your meridians:

blood & impulse

spacetime & gravity

presence, disappearance

securing & releasing

it's a dance

i'd like to have someday

to pass through into

pull apart into merge

to trace a wholeness

to call upon boundary at will

to let it drop

this wisdom has

a match, the algebra

has been solved

for x, for equals

8.

illusion was once a sticky fruit,

a sweet bait, a decayed deception

i had been swallowing

i had been ill

but! a slip of tongue,

a flip of switch,

a taste of timing,

the right vehicle

9.

now. what is truthful

will have needs:

seasons and grafts,

pruning and pollinators

a mouth to taste complexity,
a willingness to savor

the clean taste of nourishment

10.

you are still reading this

11.

it will give/it will take

12.

it will take/it will give

13.

patience. pleasure.

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