just asking questions AI offers what, preciselyand to whom?A reordering of chaotic inefficienciesof informationin favor of what? Promised layers of time savedfor whom, and to what end?We do not lack for labornor for souls seeking workThe audience sits shrouded, jeering Hiding their faces in angry contemptof what, precisely?Perhaps an attempt at erasureof being for its […]

Where have you been All this time Before the one became two Before the shield Before the chalice Before the spiral And the raw beauty Of communion Before we were lost In our own becoming I am you are we I can only answer your question With a new burning away And new steps toward […]

DiscernmentIambic Pentameter in Objection to AI My eyes do not yet behold youDazzled by uncertain lightPerhaps I’m entirely foreign to youCreator, created by divine right You seem to believe you’re beyond meOr ahead, toward an ineffable starI can’t quite say who you are to meCognitive limb, escaped lamb, avatar Our problem is one of framingImagining […]

dedicated to the lost alluvial soils of our sinking riparian zones Industrial rusttickled by an imperative Not a desire The imperative is to justify its benighted existence The imperative calls for justificationof its hulking reach The impulse cocks an eyebrowthis way?over here? It lives, it lovesIt sprouts up from a crack in the sidewalkexultant This […]