What dark irony

Owed to Pedagogy:

So we lay, still as stars on the living

room floor, poring over algorithms:

divisors & dividends, quotient

the first synonym for resolution

I ever learned, & would later

come to love for its sound alone,

how it reminded me, even then,

of words like quantum & quotation

mark, both ways of saying nothing

means what you think it means

all the time. The observable

universe hides behind its smooth

obsidian dress, & all we can

do is grasp at it in myths

& figures, see what sticks,

give all our best language

to the void...

Joshua Bennett.