The line of sunshine
like a lazy silk worm
trailing down the edge of the leaf
hints at the quantum biological processes
at work as the photons interact
with the leaf’s consciousness — panpsychism
would have us believe
that every plant
and even particle
in the universe
has an existence
that can in some way be defined
as experience
that consciousness is outside
of what we quantify
with maths
that the meanings
and the purposes
are left to another field:
philosophy, metaphysics,
above and beyond that
which can conform to numbers alone.
Quantum, spooky
action at a distance,
the decoherence
of conscious measurement,
attention, awareness;
is every atom, electron,
quark, somehow aware
and alive to the actions
of all others
even on the most infinitesimally small level…?