Optical Mise en adyme

Glass over water what can I see?

Traveling over a reflective sea.

Parallel universe, optical mise en adyme.

Human consciousness, echoing paradigm.

An essentially similar form of recursion,

Upside down, inside out ocular illusion.

Time-invariant, to an arbitrary signal,

Akin to words, an easy colloquial.

One, Two, Three, Four,

Now I walked through an open door.

Five, Six, Seven, Eight,

What will I conjugate?

Dropping by access consciousness,

Opening up phenomenal awareness.

Framed with parallel glass,

Just how fast does time pass?

Richard Carter

Dangling Participle

What is this, a dangling participle?

Why does it dangle so?

Without a clear antecedent,

To what extent,

For what event?

Shall we offer it a preposition,

A casual little phrase?

Something to join it for days and days.

Perhaps a clause is imperative,

To assist the narrative.

Bring it a subject and a predicate,

Maybe they will participate.

I don’t know,

they both seems so independent.

I guess it is just transcendent.

Oh I swear,

I’ll just let it dangle there.

Richard Carter