First a triangle.
The last we see
Of a coherent pattern.
Colored dots scatter
On the green felt.
Push the cue through
Space ‘til the blue tip
Touches the cue ball.
Draw angles from
Numbered ball
To numbered ball.
Pythagorean game.


But the clink of
The marble as we try to get
Out from behind
The 8.
Chance collisions that reorder
What we call patterns,
Are really just dots set
In arbitrary clusters.
The lost rules to
An open-ended game.