8/11/24

In First Place (a poem)

 

How they go about the race to nowhere
they left the same time
taking different routes away from the city
differentiating in the rains and desert heat
gaining and losing weight, patience and prosperity
followed by poverty with reports of shadows


Mountains with stones falling
within craters of volcanoes
surprising comets across a beautiful blue sky
laws and regulations
scriven on Newtonian apples
within a season of civilization
plugged into power sockets


The time grew to integrals and universals
differentiating relativity in forms of simultaneity
varying near observation platforms
they sought to reach
with tiring experience perspectives of colors faded
foam surged to fill entire regions
where things came apart
in season.

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