Restoration and Reduction

You can figure things out,
If you can hold them still,
Keep them from collapsing

When you’re not attending
To them, when you’re fixing
Some other terms to keep

Steady while you return
To the first stabilized
Items. Calculation

Is like that juggling where
You set the spinning plates
On top of poles. The more

You can set so they spin
While you set up others,
The more calculations

You can manage. Figure
What can be simplified,
Rearranged, and restored.

You’re finding the patterns
In what was empty air
Before you fixed things there.