Beans or stones
From parts unknown,

Sand grooves
To wire slides in
Frames of bamboo ;
Place value a priori
To Arabic-Hindu .

O dusty board
Of grid-crossed lines :

Arithmetical abaci
Exchange numbers
Across parallel bones
Connecting Earth
And Heaven in

Chakral spines,
Living fossils of
Core functions of
Mathematics
Counted manually .

Expect extra effing FIRE :

[     Dry wind,
     Dry fuel,
And dry igniters ( lightning /
Biological lighters ) ],

As if it were  not hot enough .

Remote the choking smoke floats
To blot out the blue
Fire and why’d .

Extinguish before extinction,
Down to the wire

—A point of exclamation.

Blast the white noise
And experiment .

Lo the negro promoed
To soar o’er mythos
Menial and Jim Crow—

Past detriment :
Thunder, the voice .

Invernal glossy frost
Until glow runs the snow,

Twitch of pitch,
Root and vine ;
Radicle stitch,
And quickening wine .

Reborn
Per rows in Chlorophylds ;
Sound the stops
The climbing crops,
The harvest horns .

Bacchanalian the show—
In faestival :   darkness lost .

Plantae :
Vascular green ;
Seeding, rooting, oxygenating
Chlorophyll foodstuff .   Eukaryotic movers :
Breathing, metabolizing, reproducing
Heterotrophic, chambered
Animalia .

Death :
Bloodless black ;
Killing, sleeping, resting
Casket earth .   Womb light :
Awakening, rising, beholding ;
Viable current
Life .

Whiteness :
Reflective blank ;
Contrasting, inviting, defining
Photon noise .   Aether grave :
Expanding, swallowing, erasing ;
Mysterious stoic
Blackness .

Space :
Perpendicular Cartesian ;
Unending, framing, curving—
Breathing room .   Interval dimension :
Sequencing, ticking, flowing
Progressive, indefinite
Time .

Sink back Into the softly cushioned seat
Of the limousine ;
Rub a sharp nose tiredly, set wide jaws ;
Feel the car lift on
Firm jets of compressed air, then move forward
Completely level ;
Catch no whisper of turbo ;  though behind,
Five hundred horses champ .