Short Newtonian Poems

The gravity
of space
The gravity
of time
Forging
perspectives
Relative
in kind
Newtonian
 dogma
At sixteen
he knew
By curving
the axis
It changes
— the view

(The New Room: April, 2024)
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would feeling safe to scream be enough
can anyone dry uncried tears 
I need the opposite of opposites
to balance or steer

SOS a silent mantra
in non-Newtonian cursive 
I signed my life away
whilst my hands were tied

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In Newtonian Mechanics,
the future is the past

What lags behind, what sits ahead,
the Jester only laughs

A one for one relation,
its truth in bas-relief

The numbers hail, the numbers fail
—empirical deceit

(Villanova University: January, 2020)...

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Equal and Opposite

In stone, fruit, thought,
breaking free like fugitive drops,
from arrest to arrest,
gravity punishes inclination.
Mechanic, escarpment-teethed
it grinds the inconstant glass
of orbital fall, mental elipse, 
until the motive light again
leaps up, and on, out,
over, in, and through
trailing like a spray
the bright scarf
of un-Newtonian surprise....

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martial aliens burning hot creation monolith gleams
machines rip your throat songs of another year
the piano will never play again dust is your answer
watch the movie time spins black and white Newtonian
laws apples serpent and the feathered nightmare spreads
red rivers write animals of night glowing spells of Indian incense
eclipse the rage of oceans planes fanged their way through fortune
the voices ride the elevator to the top floor silence feeding piercing worms...

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