THE MEMORY AMENDED

Beethoven and dogs are rolling over as we speak. The Danish pastry is consumed by pirates, ersatz, on talk-like-a-pirate day. How suitable on level playing fields the induced rubric! At the intersection of two searchlights simultaneously lines of sight and Gertrude Stein arrive. A universe designed for the creation of black holes, as reconstructed from cross sections, I'm a human being, I'm a jumping bean. Over before it started surely it's a non-event . The n plus first day is a variation on the nth. I have morphology to do with then to do without then without warning I change lanes. Indifference as directed knows no nuance. If I isolate one category then I'll have to isolate them all. Under a precious chestnut tree, a stanza. Pleasures incommensurate, their product is their smallest multiple and nuclei lie roundabout like food for thought like phantom hands.

Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition.