Danny Gentile #13

method lost to

the unmethodical

a greased wheel

slips out of joint

and the darkness

is an arras behind

which the unobserved

stands unrelated

not a night darkness

of leftover light

but the hidden concession

of a sealed room.

If the machine

remains unseen

is it working?

perhaps we’ll never know

we are all too busy

waiting in the forest

for the next example

listening again for

the same tree to fall