advent journal: quenched disorder

quenched disorder

I’d never seen those words
beside each other until
I read the phrase
and the definition

“the right level of
randomness to explore
the adjacent possible”

let’s go back to quenching
and the randomness
I keep seeing little fires
having to be put out

and those little fires
keep us paying attention
the price of being alive

unquenchable disorder
is just another name for chaos
or perhaps last Tuesday
no one can live there long

but a little fire now
and then keeps us warm
sparks new ideas

I’m better at disorder
than at quenching
but I’ll take my turn
it that’s what it takes

to see beyond
this burning urgency
into what we could be

Peace,
Milton