schemes of evidence offered in contradiction

Salt Plumes:

As intimate as doubt

all that is personal in chance

distinguishes one to one from

the one from the other

reinterpreted in the dark

and shared only with number

the objects in the room

the articles on the desk

are an assent to a consequent perfection

that is abandoned in moving on

pursuing neither a conclusion nor

a new point of entry

what had become unacceptable

is now overburdened only partially remembered

timed to the word denied with nothing

else to take its place or make its order

sustained by mechanism and the simulation

of some capable version or familiar resource

a preemptive predecessor quietly virtual provides

something other than an option

Ray DiPalma.