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.)