Growth

-by Jack Slaggert

WICK – (Near Archaic English): The inherent self-generated vitality and dynamism possessed and manifested by Lifeforms; energy of ones vibrant core; strength of Heartbeat  
Lit. Ref. ; Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911)
“He knelt with his knife and cut the lifeless-looking branch through, not far above the earth. ‘Thare!” he said excitedly. “I told thee so. There’s green in that wood yet. Look at it…When it looks a bit greenish an’ juicy like that, it’s wick.’ he explained.”
The Beatles, Hard Day’s Night Movie (1964)  A young boy skipping school in dialog with Ringo “I’m packin’ in. It depresses me. You heard. It gets on my wick.”


Growth


Deep creative inspiration permeates a veil.
A Song improvised. Free-style.
An inexplicable catalytic reaction
springs forth Life
on Earth, in the Water
Watery wet Earth.
Moon pulled thin moist ribbon of Life.
Circling ol’Sol.
Dis-equilibrium in the vastness
of Time and Space.
Wick.
Since way before Cambrian’s sudden wild explosion;
extreme diverse Life Building niches in the fossil record ledger.
Respiration (solar powered cellular combustion)
Evolves Our Atmosphere.
Life needs Life to survive.
Inherent collective self-interest.
Through respiration builds an environment
for efficient respiration.
O² levels optimal.
Breathe.
Fossil record Ledger,
Plastic toxic strata,
soon sequestered madness.
Befuddled neo-think’s
mistaken
self-proclaimed and tenured meritocracy Data mines
random information; oxymoron,
without context.
mediocre bell-curve ringtone. Patterns of Integration unseen; Transgressed.
Global Industrial Toxicology Pandemic,
Not very fit mutation, eh.
Cricket anyone?

Big Bang.
Likely Cyclical.
Possibly spiral,
maybe melbas.
Eternity beyond
Time’s Dimension.
Spinning Firmament;
Weaving.
Tick Tock curveball looping.
The Universe
One River.
No event isolatable.
Dynamic Process.
Flowing.
Evolving.
Learning.
Transformation Happens,
at the Point of Reaction.
Enzymes and precursors,
Mixing in the Soup.
Touch of Spice.
As
Friction on a match-head.
Heat Building, building,
Sudden Spark.
Oxidation. Transformation.
Wick.
Roots
cell by cell in pagan fractal progression
expanding outward
Intelligently auto-catalytic.
Wick.
Roots drinking Water
In the teeming moist wet Earth
Entwining with fungal nets
Bacteria feeding Rhizomes
A branch stretches for the Light
A leaf unfolds.
Another power plant on line,
organic economic growth curve upward.
A flower spreads its petals.
Time-lapse progression view.
Wick.
Stamen and pistil
quiver in the wind.
Seed Happens.
Authenticity expressed.
A song improvised.
Inherent creative wisdom
more complex than
simplistic, discrete helix code theory.
Decipher this.
Wick.
…indeterminate quantum energy, pulsing,
through the cosmos, an unheard hum,
reverberating, pulsating,
a symphony of galactic clusters.
Photons, quasars, molecules and quarks…
Exploding Stars
Dispersing heavy molecules;
silver, gold, carbon…
The stuff of life.
Molecular communities;
self replicating
collectively auto-catalytic
self-organizing
non-equilibrium systems.
Interacting.
Evolving forms
across scales.
Awareness and agency (choice) expands.
The Arrow of Time
Forward.
The Future, adjunct possibilities.
The ripened fruit
harvested and eaten.
Neural networks Energized.
A song improvised.
Communicating.
Altering Neural networks; Entraining frequencies.
Communicating. Consciousness expands.
Wick.
Water, star ash, and Sunlight
Life’s raw material.
Animated.
Life’s Environment
Metabolism,
beyond abstraction.
Wick.
This Biosphere brought to you by Life.
Ever present and engulfing.
Unified and composite
sub-molecular, cellular, Planetary.
Wholes of wholes.
Built Life tough.
The Living wet planet
Earth
in fecundity enjoys.
Wick.
Metabolism
Blues the sky evolves the eye
and the heart sees beauty.
Wick.

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