The Shape of Poetry to Come

AN IDEA¹ OF IMPROVISATION²

AS AN ACHE³ OF THE i⁴

IN DESIRE

(or Of Miraculous Accidence)

“See⁵, Harmolodics seeks

to dream a bird⁶ that’s been

composed⁷ of [chromium, 

oxygen & tungsten]”

Ornette Coleman⁸ (probably)

1 “like a complex figure in a Persian carpet“ ?

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

3 Owed to why the complex square root of -1 could

equal i as a pupil of anicca & -i as a pupil of anatta?

4 A candle’s body—or a koan rimmed by kohl?

5 Sí implies aye—silicon lines Apophenia sonnetizes?

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

7 Perhaps cuz “Crows followed me from my home.”

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 “a koan rimmed by kohl? Is the mindful I the same as the cursive 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?