The Shape of Poetry to Come

AN IDEA1 OF IMPROVISATION2

AS A CRY3 OF THE i4 IN MOTION

(or On Miraculous Accidence)

“Why Harmolodics seeks

to eye5 a crow6 that’s been

composed7 of [chromium, 

oxygen & tungsten]”

Ornette Coleman8 (surmise)

1 Why i feels “like a complex figure in a Persian carpet” 

2 "How a diamond comes into a knot of flame"

3 Of a candescent body—or the i consumed with kohl? 

4 Owed to why the complex square root of -1 sees i as a pupil of anicca & -i as a pupil of anatta?

5 Sí implies aye—a silicon self Apophenia sonnets?

6 "The only moving thing was the [i] of the blackbird"

7 The unified theme that poses as my supreme solo?

8 free Jazz—the cry of a rooster rising as a crow

What does it mean to be the eye in desire? Can you see the i as candle? What does it mean to be “the i consumed with kohl? Is the mindful I the same as the italicized I or more than an imaginary unit? Or put another way—does consciousness lean perpendicular to the physical plane? Is Quantum Bayesianism a type of improvisation? Is improvisation ever more than a series of miraculous accidents? I consider this poem to be (among other things) an Ars Poetica of a style I call HyperQBism. The poem as a tesseract of text meaning the poem as a tesseract of communion or communion as a type of superposition. Could the future of poetry be hyperQBist? At the heart of it is a colorpuntal (ghost poem + host poem) and an alchemical acrostic (chemicals symbols of elements in brackets form key words), a hyperform (a form which only exists superposed with another form) plus footnotes —which themselves can contain poems. This poem is also what I call an Iceberg sonnet (where the bulk of the lines are submerged below the “text” of the poem). Both the body of the poem & the notes contain references to the Periodic Table of Elements and the chemical symbols & atomic numbers of the elements listed in the poem can form additional text. What difference does it make that the chemical symbol for Silicon is “Si” or that its atomic number is 14? I’m counting the footnotes as part of the poem even though I have other sonnets with footnotes where I don’t count them as part of the sonnet itself. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself.” Does this mean that the I in italics is a figure in a Persian carpet?