Heikki Huotari
Summer 2023 | Poetry
To Tango
Everybody has a null hypothesis to bear. If you knew half of it like I know
half of it, oh what a fraction, what a ratio of natural numbers! All but one of
my intentions is dishonorable. Blessed is the octopus for octopuses may be octopuses' opposites. Too tall for basketball, when two or more adverse
observers obviate the wave collapse the contemplated cat will dwell in
purgatory or in perpetuity. There is no equilibrium more stable than that of
the expectation. Pass the cemetery please or pass the cemetery without
whistling. Do not go to sleep with imprecise emotions. Take those thoughts
and prayers outside.
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition.