Solids are not Solid
The Gaps
by Frances Leviston,
courtesy of Pome
And then they revealed that solids were not solid
That a wall was not solid
That it consisted of molecules fixed and vibrating
Some distance apart, as did the flesh
That solidity was really the likelihood
Of stuff not falling
Between two chairs, down the gaps
And that walking through the wall was not impossible
That it could be like
Slipping between pine trunks into a forest
Which had looked from the road impermeable
But was where something lived
And that one could peer back from the gloom towards the light
A different creature
With tender eyes, with an ear for water.
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image credit: My Heart is Dancing into the Universe, by Yayoi Kusama, published in The Strand Magazine, 2018/10/15