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Poetry of Issue 9: Reason’s Dance

Reason’s Dance

Approach cautiously those pesky

   Subterranean reasons

   Nibbling at our moral and

Spiritual infrastructure

Inciting us to act in ways that

   Defy good sense and

   Our long-term prospects

That are more opaque than

Quantum particles engaged

   In their chaotic dance. But

   Do not spurn them altogether

Because chaos often yields

Positive outcomes

   Created in the image of the same

   Unintelligible disarray

From which we have all evolved.

by Zev Torres

(Originally published in Clackamas Literary Review (2017), with a different last line.)

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