right hand pointing

Chip Dameron

Sure, it does terrific work

in the mathematical trades,

but what untapped energies— 

balance it on a rod and set it
spinning, and it might drone

across a sea of musical notes,

a mysterious landscape of signs,

or climb aboard a train

that skims along its ovals,

from oval to infinite oval,

and as the Yankee who

wore the number once said,

“When you come to a fork

in the road, take it.”