III.3 : Logical

How force is patterned by changes in direction.

By vision,
I see a world
pointing, turning
in rhythmic meter,
patterning all the ways things
may vary and continue to be.

Aim.
Sequence.
Speed.
All may be eccentric or regular.
And their change is conducted
by whatever surrounds them.
By interference.
Constructing, destructing
the peaks
and slopes
and valleys
of trajectory,
and its undulations.

These are what characterize the logical domain.
The interaction of directions
and the consequences,
the executions,
that follow.

Why the term “logical?”

Once, I saw all things in the world
meditated by motion, unsure of what kind,
but certain that it was cyclical.
The world was composed of geometric elements.
The point, the line, their oscillation.
A language, in motion,
uttered from high and holy.
Its order, a Heraclitean logos.

But though the world implied movement,
it, in truth, was incapable.
In a perfect clockwork, nothing changes.
And if there’s variation, there is no cycle.
Only a circle
whose trajectory, at some point
straightened out
long before continuing
its completion.

Though this movement
still conveys no forward movement alone,
it’s no longer supposed to.
Now, it better conveys a principle of change.

Of vital animation.
Producing these shimmering emanations,
producing ever-new conditions.

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