Stasis
Stasis—The state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces.
Who controls time as the pendulum swings—those who want the arc to move forward or those who want to pull it back.
"Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity, 2009
"They
shouldn't be offering prayers and words because those mean nothing. We need
action.”
—Lyliah
Skinner, Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor
in a message
to lawmakers, February 2018
Stasis
Marks
in space ascend stirring pieces of habit.
Caught in a maelstrom, guided by
intuition, bound by an amalgam of logic
the abandoned lines
find temporary stasis among the roiling curves.
A
ratio: formulated to circumnavigate the definition of reason,
broken by
the uncertainty that straight can bend,
round
can bisect angles, and parallelograms will always shift toward infinity.
An
acute step, undone by instinct, wakes with a restless pulse—
An
incremental beginning:
a tenuous thread,
stopping at the line,
looking for a new
direction,
drawn with a
syncopated rhythm
that begins
as a dance stepped in anticipation,
and
ends on an infinite horizon, suspended
in the crosscurrent of a hesitant breeze.
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