This body
seven billion billion billion atoms
all agreeing
to cohere—
but sometimes
I sense
a mutiny
*
and seven
billion
billion
billon
atoms
all at once
become bench,
milk, book, leaf,
rye, sign,
street
October 9, 2011 by Rosemerry
This body
seven billion billion billion atoms
all agreeing
to cohere—
but sometimes
I sense
a mutiny
*
and seven
billion
billion
billon
atoms
all at once
become bench,
milk, book, leaf,
rye, sign,
street
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 84s, atoms, body, catclysm, quantum | 1 Comment
Sounds like the genesis story of Atom and DeNA.
You know, this mutiny would seem more threatening if the two stanzas were reversed, starting with the other objects, then revealing the speaker, the poem ending on the sense of mutiny.