Algebra

And the solution to the equation
is a negative.
Our x and y are mash up
in a mill of functions and operators,
and the solution to the equation is
the sum total of all the beauty in the universe;
and the solution to the equation is
fire;
and the solution to the equation is
outgrowing and burgeoning,
and exceeding all my hopes
and stilling my heart with her complexity.

This equation must be quartic, or quintic,
because there is more than space and time
in the geometry of these decaying orbits.
There is more than shape to these forms;
there is more than fractal chaos
to these disordered patterns;
and there is more than heat loss to this
entropic blue shifting expansion
of the spaces between.
The solution to the equation is
the sum total of all the beauty in the universe;
and the solution to the equation
is a negative.

Colchester, September 2010