In Quantum Mechanics, Marriage Is by Charlotte Mandel
discontinuous
as rain
chips into the lake,
each linear strike
sets another circle in the jostle
as currents
succeed.
The slanted line’s
illusion, a drop of water
in transit, pulled
downward by the same
gravity that seats us
opposite,
profiles motionless
as the ruled sheets before us,
the pencil in your right hand,
the pen in mine.
Our gazes
pierce the glass wall,
cross the lake,
diagram
X.
This is our 40th year. One
fixed point
established, you strike the paper,
I circle.
"In Quantum Mechanics, Marriage Is" first appeared in Clockwatch Review, v III # 1, 1986.
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