On the string quartets of Elliot Carter.
Primed
and fired
In frenetic determinations
Directions certain and sure
Thrown forward
Thrust toward
the limits of the frame
Defined, by the edge of the rebound
Resounding hard and pure
Orbs of size and density
Scatter across space
Fire, spin and ricochet
in angular collisions
Paths that divide and bifurcate
that splinter and proliferate
As neurons fire and illuminate
An interlace of events
stratification of time
and definition of space