I am a succession of patterns
of excitations in fields
the inevitable consequence
of unknowable boundaries
a transient eddy swirling in a funnel
as a stream of water is guided
toward its local minimum.
I am a tangled hierarchy
of levels of abstraction
embedded in cinders
glowing anew after a momentary dark
looping strangely within my cradle
atop precarious spindles
bound someday to buckle.