Isolated material properties are abstractions
their properties being definable and observable
only through their interaction with other systems.
Neils Bohr
There’s a certain way the man
in the blue suit moves one foot forward
under his desk, forward but slightly sideways
so not only slowing sound waves in Minsk
but bending star light in Bruge.
And there’s a particular way
that because his right hand rests on his
opened book, the faintest shadow crossing
the sideboard and chipped bowl,
even your own eighth grade teacher’s
second ex-husband’s former
banker’s first thought of the day
wobbles on its axis, spins and tips back
thereby slightly brightening, then subtly dulling
his sister’s half dozen collectible forks
spooned neatly together nightly
in the cabinet closest the stove,
just left of the pie tin,
just right of the marjoram
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