24 january

as if the numbers matter when really it's just the words you know - or it seems to these ears, though what i hear and how i look and what i see and how i feel are all a mix of signifiers - tea leaves and eyes crossed with dots, rising in the house of a lonely planet: a discovered in a far-flung orbit, discussed and supposed only by conjecture and its influence on others passing by - the mark of a remarkable life, unseen but by influence - unobtrusive but by distance - goals unexpected prevail from the science report as if tomorrow's forecast: setting sail at dawn