NOT ABOUT A BUTTERFLY
The comfort we get
turning phenomena into data,
graphing a sigh,
we can quantify that comfort too,
which gives off more pleasurable data,
like an echo
fleeing a useless laugh.
Watching clouds change shape
is a doomed pursuit,
but that doesn’t mean
we shouldn’t do it.
Better to fail there than triumph
building a box for an integer
that by its nature
can never be the thing itself,
that gone moment
we wish to examine more closely.