Tyrone Williams
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.
Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of several chapbooks and six books of poetry: c.c. (Krupskaya 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn 2008), The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press 2009), Adventures of Pi (Dos Madress Press 2011), Howell (Atelos Books 2011) and As Iz (Omnidawn 2018). A limited-edition art project, Trump l’oeil, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. He and Jeanne Heuving edited the anthology, Inciting Poetics (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). His website is at http://home.earthlink.net/~suspend/