The Shape of Poetry to Come

A CRY1 OF IMPROVISATION2

AS TRACE3 OF THE i4 IN MOTION

(or of Miraculous Accidence)

“Harmolodics just means

eye5 a crow6 in the wind

composed7 of [chromium, 

oxygen & tungsten]”

Ornette Coleman8 (probably)

1 O this crisis of candescence—of this i drawn by kohl?

2 How a diamond [wails] into a knot of flame

3 The i as “a complex figure in a Persian carpet” 

4 Why the imagined square root of -1 sees i as pupil of anicca & -i as pupil of anatta?

5 Si as Apophenia hears the Oh of the crow as aye?

6 The only moving thing is the [i] of the blackbird

7 Below limestone cliffs the echo of a lone woman?

8 morning prayer—a rooster’s cry rises as a crow

How does it hurt to be the i in desire? Can you see the i as candle? What does it mean to be “the i drawn by kohl? Is the mindful I the same as the italicized I or more than an imaginary unit? Or put another way—does consciousness emerge 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 might be a figure in a Persian carpet?