Wave Mechanics
By Dana Curtis
(i)
I don't have the math and I become more
and more convinced that no one has
the green ribbon given to everyone just
for participating. When we were
undressed by the water, satisfied
as if this was anything other
than a revolutionary new
interpretation that might be called:
pastoral or pictorial or labyrinthine
and what question will finally be
revealed as our shadow, our
hours in the light cast by
the new oven, the old
reality—castanets are what
we hear in this endless ocean
of grass dotted with horses and
fish—they're still flipping on the
oxygen and they might never
stop. I take down my hair. I take
the final dictation. I have not taken
the temperature of what will come.
(ii)
I don't have the math and I don't see much
chance of ever receiving a line of
integers like diamonds. There seems
more chance of paying the rent
then a deposit of numbers appearing
at my door. I'm experiencing the
poverty my husband always said I deserved.
If the universe doesn't give it to you then
you don't deserve it: look at me. There can be no
reconciliation if both sides of the equation
are wrong. I was sleeping in the park
while the stars let out shrieks of
contentment, of justification—
it was cold or it was
not cold. I was or was not.
This is what is integral
for a long-lost daughter lost again
and I know what the world will
give me this time.
(iii)
I don't have the math but I do
have a disease—all about
perception. I'm looking
through the glass of what used
to be water. It's the wave
form and the hand in the air
signaling departure or return or
symbolic particles because they
look like they need to be there
and what will I do because I have
the math without numbers, the
numbers without significance;
it's a standing spherical demonstration
of what I saw in the dark—
the darkest room where there might be
nothing to hear because we sit down
with all our notations meaning so much
to us. It is a disease
of the light.
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