Principles of Physics
… In the park, over the low wall, there are two girls playing in the grass. Giants looming over their toys, monstrously out of proportion.
They’re holding hands and spinning, leaning farther and farther back until their fingers rope together, chubby flesh and bone enmeshed.
What do I see?
Angular momentum around their center.
A principle of physics in their motion.
A girlish memory of grass-stained knees.
~ A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Janna Levin
Naiad and Thalassa (Neptune’s innermost moons)
don’t collide… odd orbits of resonance
one tilts with respect to its partner
(a reminder we know so little) –
Resonances have shaped the solar system.
~ Robin George Andrews
Ashes denote that Fire was –
Revere the Grayest Pile
For the Departed Creature’s sake
That hovered there awhile –
Fire exists the first in light
And then consolidates
Only the Chemist can disclose
Into what Carbonates –
~ Emily Dickinson
