Ordinary phenomena obtain
For example an appointment at 4:95
Falling body suspended
The contingency of a leitmotif
As silver gilded over taint of gold
Kirsch and ginger plums and antonyms
Droning speech unbelievably comprehensive
A categorical prevarative
No that’s too strong an infinite variation
But not necessarily infinite
An old-fashioned second hand that leaps
Gradation by small gradation
And thus elides the texture of the gradual
Paint chips in the rack on the shop wall
A length of garland hose virtuosic anthology
Do not suffice to provide freshness of perception
The quantitative analyses these do not
Exercise futility merely but nor are they
Entirely efficacious in their outcomes
Nor certainly entirely truthful
Nor is an outcome orientation entirely commendable
For at some microcosmic level
All that is qualitied is evented
Though as to universals of course
We should maintain a stance of circumspection
Tripping up the stairs and falling around the corner
Allowing that at a macrocosmic level
We perceive these graduated leaps
As for example pertaining to levels
The same chilled tea recipe every day
The same quantity of tea leaf of honey of water of lime
But these measurements grossly imprecise
And hence each cup a little different
Trivial variation no doubt
But dubious for the insensible impatient and old
All beautiful all damned in the flux
And mood fluctuates more than most
The more sublime the more blessed the more fleeting
And yet at the baseline a steady state
The settling silt of the irretrievable
Oblivious of the carnival beneath
Home of vicious sirens and gay profusion of color
Upon which it rests