Poems

Written by 𝛙 on 9 September 2024.

This post is a contribution to the second Qualia Research Institute psychophysics retreat, which took place from 2 September 2023 to 20 September 2023 in Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada.


Table of contents


1.

The copper tangle glows
Smoothing into geodesic flows
As white clouds fill the glass.
Kinks spring straight,
Torsion transforms,
The energy of turbulence
Survives as a pretzel twist algebra
Along a glowing line of power.

2.

A dozen Shivas sparkling,
Opulently tumbling,
Rhombically disoriented,
In satin and steel,
The echoes of a Faerie wish

3.

Forgotten extras
Fuel the story,
Reabsorbed into the whole,
Dissected into stereotypes
Reforged into companions and heroes

4.

Braid the strands,

Observe their tension.
You can force it,

At a cost.
Where, oh where, did your other selves go?
Alarums and excursions,
Cries and laments.

A taut string of Toledo steel
Is the beneficiary
Of the last will and testament
Of terminating worldlines
Awash in dead men’s kung fu.

5.

Or else twist gently,

Weave and unravel,
Writhe joyfully,
Caress the rest points
Slide along the instantons.

A cabling emerges,
Strong and supple.
It’s all you, Shakti.
They’re all you
Helical glories
Merging,
Emerging,
Effortlessly,
Into a macramé universe,
A rope bridge to the infinite

Emptiness becomes emptiness,
But how?
Closed universes Jones to be computed,
The sum of all paths tells your story.

Yoga is the Fourier Transform of Stories

The name of a moment is the moment
In the Entish speech-that-creates.
But then there’s the experience of that moment.
No name captures it;
It’s just there.
Afterwards,
(Or before?)
It could be lots of things—
A Lagrangian has many lifts.
The book on Borges’s shelf
Feels different
Every time you open it.
Zig zag your way
Across the great sheaf of being—
The Hamiltonian escape.


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𝛙 (2024, September 9). Poems. https://heart.qri.org/retreats/2023-canada/psi/poems.html

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@misc{psi2024poems,
  author = {𝛙},
  title = {Poems},
  url = {https://heart.qri.org/retreats/2023-canada/psi/poems.html},
  year = {2024}
}