In Accelerated Silence by Brooke Matson

Author:Brooke Matson [Matson, Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2019-03-14T22:00:00+00:00

ELECTRON CLOUD

You tell me of an invisible planetary system in which electrons gravitate around a nucleus. You explain this world to me with an image. I realize then that you have been reduced to poetry.

—ALBERT CAMUS

You could be anywhere—

after all, the hummingbird’s wings

flutter so fast only

a flute of emerald

hovers among the trumpet vines

Even the waspish leaves

hum

like tuning forks

All matter orbits what it adores

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Think of the blades of a fan—

how they cease

to be blades

and where they escaped

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