Which Is It?

those who say
burn the fields clean
start over
those who say
never forget
review the acts and words
those who say
not one thing
nor another
a synthesis a quilt
information as color & sound
texture & scent the clock
is papyrii seconds as pages
hours in amphora
distributed to the bottom
of the ocean of being
those who say
it doesn't matter
meaning floats
those who say
to forget it to drown
the lacunae
layers of paint
withering in the heat
of this investigation
turn the light off
you are destroying the
historically valuable aspects
air bubbles glug towards
the surface the old clay
seams weaken microscopically
along my normal faults