In the old math
of Base Lumber
the square root
of a two-by-four
is two-by-twos
of sawn timber
dredged up
from a flood-
plain nee wood-
headed vector
following a tangent
only up
to a point
on a curved
surface that
for all the world
appears flat.
Now the dispensation
of carbon-based
attachments to
intelligent
holograms
disabuses
future extinctions
of a specious
nom de plume
underwriting
henceforth
left-handedness
tilts to
asymmetry
browns out-blue
skies blue
as the blue-
eyed earth
watches God-
black holes
wink at palimpsests.