James Knight

an organism is an event

‘The conceptual price paid is the relinquishing of the idea of space, and of time, as general structures within which to frame the world. Space and time are approximations which emerge at a large scale.’
Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems

zero

skull
                yellowing page

    a listening
from inside

        pulpy red night

    fevered hum of a road
a network of roads
        lapsed time light filaments 
        flickering synapses

            or

    soft skull
holding wetly
hard weird intersections

spiny night
bristling in my skin

even the orchestra is smoothed out
    by my tinnitus

one

there are probable responses to the given circumstances
which are calculable 
            with time and patience
probable scenarios
        observed up close
        fixed in your gaze

                 or

        liquid skull
    because all solids have a melting point
cream dripping pooling
                        about frozen cells

    or

            skull shaped cloud
                 of
                  probability

         there on the yellowing page
        there in blank and white

James Knight is an experimental poet and digital artist. His books include Void Voices (Hesterglock Press), Self Portrait by Night (Sampson Low), Chimera (Penteract Press) and Machine (Trickhouse Press). Website: thebirdking.com. Twitter: twitter.com/badbadpoet