Theoretical
by Eric Evans
Theory’s such a beautiful thing,
the way it sits there on paper,
so well attended, I’s dotted,
T’s crossed, commas, periods,
punctuation, flawless in its
hermetic way, an abstraction
in a reconsidered world.
Practice, however, is another
thing, a bigger animal, a nastier
beast, tenuous and thinner-skinned,
cut and scraped, swearing and
bruised, all splinters and bandages,
wounded by the variable, magnetized
by the charm of the second-guess.
Practice has its beauty, though,
fleeting as it may be, random as
it may seem, kept like a secret,
passed like an heirloom, the worth
of its weight measured and held
by invisible hands yet spoken
with grateful breath.
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