prepare
heated 312.7 g purified water.
the gallon jug has no more than
136 g water in it,
so tomorrow will close that span.
bag sniff
pop the bag for a sniff:
grind
after yesterday’s delicious
accident, went up to
1.9.3, finest grind yet.
this is a light roast,
push it to the edge of the
wind.
forgot to measure the grounds,
but 16.1 g beans went into
the timemore.
sniff
brew
water sizzling hot, 256.2 g
poured by 1:22
immersion to 2:45
drawdown to 3:45
listen
long cool world
by north americans
taste
the first sip’s flapjacks
as the
pale blue horizon
lifted its
eye
on the way down the hill
from the
first breath,
perfume-soaked
magnolia sidewalk
pre-dawn spotted
pink panther
prowled
attention, toward the riches
of the earth for nuggets
of peaches, buried
fires, pharaoh
pheromones,
phonophilia writ only
into edge sense,
scrawled
in chalk out-
lines
in the language of vagrants,
itinerant philosophers
pruned of experience,
arid iridescence
or any egoic film
whatsoever,
a single swan’s white back,
heads deep down in seeking
glimmering and ovular,
a sip’s inward pull and hold,
the truck wheel’s hand
passing finger-nod
as the sun warms
the cool shine
of morning
reflect
chapter 2 of michael pollan’s 2026
book about consciousness,
a world appears,
antonio damasio and karl friston were
mentors to mark solms, who says,
consciousness is felt uncertainty.
self-organizing systems,
like crystals, ant colonies, weather systems,
ecosystems and humans,
are selected or evolved towards
persistence. these consume
error signals to improve predictions
about their environmment,
so as to better survive.
in a dark forest at night, is that
black splotch a bear? …
examine with adrenaline
no, just a boulder.
as organisms, we evolved to feel
uncertainty, to sense it.
in a moment of decision,
feeling asks which way to go:
making a model of the world
that leads the path that
decreases uncertainty.
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