how to synthesize

how to marry
what we are given
clouds with telescopes
metaphors and molecules
hues and
data, verse and
analysis, cadmium
red, a sled
called rosebud

how to synthesize

even in the presence
of a light we barely know
(the dark reaction goes on)

how to graft without rejection
marry without mutual
annihilation

the process
slows the blossom
she says the blossom
is just one piece
(don't give it a name)

I used to wonder who was right,
now I care only
who is left

what's at work below
what bubbles up
black gold
blue-green algae
poetry of your data