Wet

Ascension is a wet progress

(twenty becomes ten)

complex, like the lathe that turned this cap

a study of pressure and time

(ten becomes six)

complicated as the pour, these facile molecules

fill the blood which looks blue beneath

but is red, always thick

when it falls you get depth to it with the stain

(six becomes four)

gears are dry until they are bathed

and start to twist again

(four becomes three)

complicated this miasma of wires

(three becomes two)

complex design, wet, letting go like paper blueprints

(two becomes one)

solitary the cup that is raised in the temple of alone

(one becomes twenty)