from “The Double Slit Experiment” by Christine Gosnay

I

Mr. Richard Feynman describes the double slit experiment.
Just relax and enjoy,
I’m going to tell you what nature behaves like

and if you will simply admit
that maybe she does behave like this,
you’ll find her a delightful, entrancing thing.

II

Asleep inside the word for water,
the unglossy leaf goes on its golden journey with the sunlight.

It is a magnificent seat in the river’s magnificent seat.
In many ways, we don’t use pressure to express time.

Here, or here, in a profligate patch, picture what is wildly going,
growing mild, bolting outside a dark schoolhouse.

Or here, silt catch-place making slit catch-place by the river
with small hearts-obcordates, with even smaller cuneates.

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