Tuesday, January 21, 2025

SPOOKY ACTION

It's chaotic 
but predictable 
as quantum physics: 

in the last instant, 
works of art 
create themselves. 

But the theistic implications
of that—

not to mention 
our sense of being 
directly addressed

by furors 
of color, or the slings 
of random metaphor —

these loom 
so much larger 

than our debit 
to the vision

that, instead of delight, 
or the pleasure 
of reckoning, 

we can't help but feel 
suspicion.