Experimental
used to mean: based
on experience.
Am I aging, then,
less like dry
sherry in the bottle—
not into quotidian
tradition or senescence—
but rather
toward the vanguard,
the eccentric,
the unstable?
Perhaps,
rather than enable
its denial,
age
is time (that daft abstraction)
turning real.
Or—a good
scientist would add—
so it feels.
