Chaos
(After Chaos, by James Gleik, which asserts that chaos
is not random but minutely structured and calculable)
Chaos, (some say), is not what it’s been deemed
For generations immemorial.
Chaos has structure, (so such people say),
As regular and as predictable
As any concept science yet has dreamed.
Appearances deceive perception’s eyes,
(They say); beneath its superficial signs
Chaos is organised in detailed schemes –
Rich, intricate arrangements of designs –
Which seem discordant yet are harmonies.
If it is true that Chaos is the primal source
Of Nature’s order, still its strange residuum
Conspires to contradict those scientific laws
Which posit universal equilibrium.
