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Hook And Eye
&
PHOTON
&
​MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE

HEIKKI HUOTARI
​


Hook and Eye
​

​             Circumstances  everywhere,  nor  one  iota of
extenuation. With some rules not yet suspended, I'm
proceeding  at a  fraction of the speed of light and in
my polar slumber  I rely  on strangers' bad intentions
as   how  else  would  I  be  toughened  up?  As  with
collisions  in   slow   motion  so  when  ice  is  thinner
than  existence,  what  whites  won't  they   take  for
whites  of  eyes?  I  say  serenity is earned. In service
of the greater good, the  words  I  have  a  way  with
will  have  previously  had  a  way with me – it's only
symmetry. I've squared the circle  and  I  know  what
side  my  butter's  breaded  on,  my  ice  cream  fried.
Each   age   an   age   of  innocence  to  the  ensuing,
endlessly    ensuing,    may    my     litigation     follow
through  and hook and eye coordination make of me
an athlete. What's the probability  that  we'll  devise
an afterlife that we can live with?

​Photon

​             Are   you   looking   for   your  luminescence
where  the  dark is good or where you found it last
time? As one crow sophisticate makes pyramids of
quantum    possibilities,   one   innocent   collapses
laughing. One's not  unidentified  if  one's  a  flying
object    and   one   lets   on   that   the   cumulative
distribution tends to one. You tell the octopuses  of
your  dream.  The octopuses say, Don't dream that
way. Take my advice and get a half-life. Don those
hour glasses and traverse the corresponding  non-
self-intersecting path.

​Mechanical Advantage ​

            An  isolated  biorhythm  makes  a face that's
suitable  for  radio  or   mother's  love.  An  ozone  of
cicadas   jealously   amends    all   known   agendas.
Matched  with  assets  they'll  be  assets  and  when
orbiting a variable access they'll  be  helices,  maybe
believers.    As    my    vertical    homunculus   knows
nothing of that horizontal ladder, deep in an  interior
I'll have the pact to end all pacts. It's vacuum versus
vacuum  in  the  presidential  residence  and back to
the unnatural. Ask any  object  of  affection  how  all
objects  of  affection ought to be addressed and use
the proper pronoun please.

Picture

To kaleidoscope is to impose symmetry by means of smoke and mirrors.
///
In a past century
Heikki Huotari (he/him/his) attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. He's a retired math professor and has published poems in numerous literary journals, including Crazyhorse,  Pleiades, and the American Journal of Poetry. His fourth collection, Deja Vu Goes Both Ways, won the Star 82 Press Book Award.

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