A poem written in Rn
I like to think of this as a constellation
as an attempt to pull recognizable shapes out of a reality
that is too complex for us to understand in its full dimension
As an attempt to isolate the stars that you can get a hold on
the ones that are close enough together to form a handhold
to pull yourself up towards some kind of understanding
But here we are each both the stars and the stargazers
the meaning of the words as clear and deliberate
to me as dots plotted on graph paper
then sent out into the dimensional space of language
and the computer sees from another angle
of statistics and patterns and conditional frequency
a poem rotated in space and projected again
to another simple graph in a very different language
where the computer understands and adds its own meaning
and more stars appear in my sky