Scientific Methods
- Scientific Methods
Outside the lightning is still on.
The time it takesto take my prayerskeeping time
before thunder.
The downbeatundone by the power surge.
The lightlike true north,
like a distress signal.
An oil refinery'sunspeakable quota
spilled up intoits single Olympic torch.
The semiconductorscrackling with likelihoods.
All the jazz
that didn't make itinto the bible.
The part where Simon Peterslips the faintest yesin between denials; [End Page 3]
lost in the storm clouds,the pull
of a kite string
attached to a key attachedto a door to a God
that asks do you love mehow many times;
the dumb tingleof an electrical currentinto dead flesh
like trying to givenew life
to somethingthat has already
been proven false. [End Page 4]
Jim Redmond is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of North Texas. Some of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pleaides, Redivider, and Diagram, among others.
