Quantum strings always ring assigned
frequencies with songs that constrain
matter in the dance of chance and
brute necessity. Inert bodies undergird
all that we are. Brains of beasts are
bullied by what came before. But life!
Life bears the foretaste of freedom – what is notforbidden, one day becomes. And in the garden, God’shoney-voiced servant wakes new worlds of knowing.Ah, the siren-serpentblows jazz notesriffsbelow the threshold of thinkingwhere blood risesunbiddenand circuits etch symbols as Adam sings namesbeasts of the field and birds of the aircapturedin the holy danceof fire and abstractionin the shade of the tree that towers mid-gardenstepping lightlyto syncopated serpent-rhythmincipient mind finds the symbol for mindregards itselfstaring back, stripped of innocence, consciousof consciousnessit falls through the face of infinityemergesto indeterminacywith furrowed temple and tart aftertastefree, aware, ashamedat last