Stewart McKenzie

Stay perfectly still.

At your motionless* center
You travel through time.
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When poetic compression of meaning
Passes a quantum threshold
(The Blanck Length?)
Ambiguities arise.
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The ghost in the words
The voice in the signs
The figure in the scribbles
That hides between the lines
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The French and Japanese pass laws
To try to keep words out
While wanton English tempts words in
Like some old hooker on History Street.
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The French eat their words
Say it in French with orotund vowels
And backthroat rolling 'r's
Les Francais mangent leur mots
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Freed from focus thoughts slide by
A swift and dark flowing river
White waters eddies and whirlpools
A poet plucks treasures from the stream
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Shrink wrapped for freshness in telomere tails -
Genes that is, lifestuff -
Tails that tear with each genesplit until they’re gone,
Life too.
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The ideal audience size for a poet is one.
Direct from me to you. No watchers.
Whispering together in the privacy of our minds.
When poems are performed therefore
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There are two things I know about a horse

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A little boy comes home from school and asks his father what “frugal” means.
“Well” says his father “it means to save”.
The next day the little boy comes home from school all excited
“Dad, we were told such a good story today in class
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Seven miles below
The nighttime land glides by
Splashed and spangled with lights
Gold and silver
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By the time that you hear me,
I spoke in your past.
When I hear your reply,
You in mine.
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To virtual numbers,
Invisible dimensions,
And fictitious proxy waves,
We must now add imaginary time.
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A Children's Tale

Once upon a time
There was a little boy called Happy Sam
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THE BEST OF TIME

Bathed in dust-spangled ceremonial laser light
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False stasis of ping-pong ball
On fairground fountain
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These quantum physicists would have us believe
That universe is full of motion detectors
That switch things off as we approach.
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OED Definition:
Bearing or enduring pain, affliction, or evil of any kind
without discontent or complaint
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It seems that gravity only attracts
In universes of middling sizes
When our universe was tiny
A quantum storm in the Ocean of Higgs
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We walk as if on weakening ice
Above a great darkness.
Dancing is - difficult
When the ice is thin.
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