if all the world’s secrets are kept
by snails and thrushes knock-knocking
before the secret door at sunsets…

when all the snails have dried up,
and the thrushes flown south,
will there be no secrets anymore?

relational patterns in closed number systems
or closed pathways in relational patterns?

the overlay of systems on top of systems;
what breaks when you subtract? divide?
when you add, how high the bell curve climbs…

gloating eyes and pincer-fangs,
spiders sometimes smile aweb…
but they do keep the mosquitoes down.