physics
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Still one of my favorite poems. Previously published by The RavensPerch. “The ‘path’ comes into existence only when we observe it.” —Werner HeisenbergA bee hovers—facing, as I do,the wedge of sky pointing down the canyon,absorbing heat from the granite walls.We are nearly still—wings beat precisely to stay in place.Heart beats preciselythe languid pulse of sitting.I…
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I. Standing, feet naked to the earth. Walking, the sensation of flow from heel along the outer edge of sole to outer ball, inner ball, the rhythm of it. Like the sleek shifting weight of a running cougar: the ripple and the grace in the movement. Touching ground, bending knee, taking weight, pushing off, finding…
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Do astronomers not name the stars behind the stars, the ones they can’t see? Do they believe an eclipse can actually block light, that even a source of light may be too solid to let light through? No, I’ve heard, they can see what’s hidden, as light bends like water around river rock. Electromagnetic radiation…
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Time only flows forward at the fullness of the present and the release of the past. Time does not move straight forward only, but in whorls and spirals, tendrilling outward. Equal and opposite coactions curl around each other: a quadruple helix blooming from the center, where time faces four dimensions at once: within the present.…