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Saying Goodbye

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on December 28, 2022| 17 Comments »




To say goodbye to one person you love
is to say goodbye to part of yourself.

I must have them, you think. You think,
I can never be whole without them.

But in that gap of the fabric, that tear made of love,
is a place you can climb into at any time

and know the true shape of yourself, which is infinite.
Sometimes it takes the sharp ache of loss

to feel into the truth of our interconnectedness,
to know what the quantum physicists know—

how woven we are with each other,
with the universe,

how woven we are with all that is living
and all that is what we call dead.

Though it’s science, it’s also a kind of faith.
And it’s dark. And it’s sweet. And it’s beautiful,

and it’s terrifying, this thread that reminds us
just how much we belong to the rest of the world,

this thread we can’t untie even if we want to,
this thread that tethers us to one another, to eternity.

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Oh, Says Wendy, You’re Going Quantum

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 9, 2011| 1 Comment »

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

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