Origami Microchap

Cover design by author

play of light

beneath summer trees
sunlight seems to dance
in patches, patterns
of shifting brightness.

but it’s all illusion,
for truly, all through,
sunlight holds steady —
only the shadows move.

border crossing
(literature & art)

depiction
by deception

allusive
illusive
elusive

art is both
expedition
& field report

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Peter Roberts © 2025

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Cover art by Peter Roberts

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the big why

why is there something?
because nothingness is much
too much to bear,
existence is
the lighter load,
the easier thing.

a coming together

minute flecks
of every color
merge to form
endless grey ocean
uncalm throughout –

all life, all things,
space, time, matter,
just drops, spray, splatter,
upward rain
briefly separated,
wild colors & shapes,

from tumbling waters:
fluid integrity,
(colors re-blend,
forms re-merge)
singular & complex
disparate unity,
unity in motion,
motion of ocean.

concise lovesong

the true likes of you
are few & hard to find:
that's why you are u-
nique, & always on my mind.

3 poli-hai

when voters get mad
they vote the ins out, & they
vote the out-theres in

folks desire simple
solutions, & only want
expected surprises

what's the greatest gift
the masses give their masters?
wishful ignorance

phase shift

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 ode: descartes

i think
what i think
therefore
i am
as
i
am

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decoding the dark

study the cryptology
of silence
to learn what is
written in night.

forest & field
call out to heedless
stars, saying
everything
without words. what
can we say with words?
we hear more when we listen
to no words; we say more
when we speak silence,
in darkness, alone.

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 solitude

an obscure transit

cold fire —
friction-forced
static charge sputters
& flitters      a phantom
fish-net pattern
encircling enmeshing
the dull-metal hull
of a vast vessel
— star-faring freighter —
which sails silently
massively through
some dust dark nebula.