Explain clouds as memory
Clouds as memory
Less than virus, but perhaps
More than fire
Clouds have an inertia:
I-was-similar-to-this-before
Thinks the cloud, unthinking.
Not quite mattress spring, not quite DNA
Clouds as memory—
This is left as an exercise for the reader.

Explain the space-for-time substitution
Explain space as time
The idea that over distance
Things become less and less similar.
If we can understand why things change
Then as there:
Push and pull:
Apogee; adjacency; agency; agape;
Entropy and emergence—
This is left as an exercise for the reader.

Explain the number of different things
Explain the number of different things as crystals
Jostled into formation
The fruitful facets of someone’s polyhedron
The shimmering
From liquid to
Positive space, defining interstices.
At what point do different things
Emerge?
Uncoil the catalysis of individuation—
This is left as an exercise for the reader.

Find a use.
Find a use that
Is redemptive and immanent
Such that gossamer causeways
Only connect
Outwards, outwards.
Find a use. Find a use.
And please.
Please finish something.
Finish something.
Just finish something.
Please.
This is left as an exercise for the reader.

BIO: Jesse Czekanski-Moir is still working on a Ph.D. in conservation biology at SUNY-ESF. Did his parents meet because they were both camp counselors at an Audubon nature camp? Yes. Yes they did. One can extrapolate the rest with astounding precision (this is left as an exercise for the reader). He can say “thank you” in more than 15 languages, but he probably doesn’t say it enough.