helix
miranda sat quietly,
stolidly, upon age-old varnished oak,
and she spoke to me, saying
sentences which wound through
pathways of thought
as the syllables and the words and the phrases
were a genetic code of communication,
spiraling through space in a double-wound helix,
defining parameters of the spirals,
accelerating through, ever forward,
always more innovative, but never reaching center.
Centripetal Acceleration: the acceleration
that an object undergoes
when revolving in a
circular, elliptical, or helical fashion.
each word was a codon for meaning, for proteins which
build thought and empathy.
of course, this is what she made me think of,
as she rambled on without apparent purpose.
Timothy A. Clark
1997