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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Poem-A-Day: Rae Armantrout, Chirality

Academy of American Poets

July 17, 2012

Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Noelle Kocot. Used with permission of the author.

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    Chirality
    by Rae Armantrout

    If I didn't need
    to do anything,
    would I?

    Would I oscillate
    in two
    or three dimensions?

    Would I summon
    a beholder

    and change chirality
    for "him?"

    A massless particle
    passes through the void
    with no resistance.

    Ask what it means
    to pass through the void.

    Ask how it differs
    from not passing.

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