Visual acuity
light in the eye transforms:
particle and wave fractured
into color, parsed into contour,
interpolated into movement
billions of data points selected
or discarded to create
patterns that give the riotous world
an appearance of order
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For those who are interested: this was inspired by a cryptic note J.R.R. Tolkien tucked into an unfinished sketch currently on display in Oxford, England.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/31/drawn-into-tolkiens-world-exhibition
I really like the density of this poem.
Thank you for telling me! 🙂 Sometimes I worry that I write a little too densely.