"When we concentrate on a
material object, whatever its situation,
the very act of attention may lead
to our involuntarily sinking
into the history of that object."
a human branch eyes an object
at one thin layermoment
an imaginary line drawn
between eye and object
and the human's radial ontology
lighting up
with stories about that object
stories it's incarnating
in the present
or may incarnate
in the future
or may have incarnated
in the past
(whence N warns)
