–talking about physics//africa//and i//a portrait

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i’m lightyears/cesium/ molecules,
the distance moon to earth
a quantum field, a theory of
nanoscopic scales

&i’m the little girl that chases doves
in a medieval marketplace,
a baby, snuggled up against her mother’s breast,

i’m in the silky wrinkles
of the businessman’s blue suit&tie, his worried eyes,
the tram’s soft rattle ’round the farmer stands,
cappucchino foam &costa rican coffee blend,

i’m every cobble stone,
that whispers stories from the past,
a kingdom// knight & cracks in the old city wall,
Justizia with a scale in hand on a 15th century clock
&carmesin red townhall paint

a crinkled skyblue paperboat
at rest//put on a table in the cyro lab
of basel university
he smiles “you really see the small things”

i am atoms,
slowed /cooled down to test
then released, a heavy wind
that whips confetti in your face,

i’m broken pottery,

&pearl-white teeth
in the 5-star hotel butler’s nightblack face

the clacking of a keyboard
in a late eve empty office space

i’m in a dream
that slowly circles ’round your chest
and in my youngest daughter’s gaze

“every clock” he says “needs an oscillator”
measuring f in kilohertz
i’m that

a pendulum,
a wanderer
i’m everything //a bit

& sling a band of sunshine ’round my hips
meet Einstein on a sun dial at 0.00001 Hz
a game of chess
the globe laughs deep (&i’m in that)
moving// turning ‘round an earthy axis in a star-drenched bed

& i am thousand spreading freckles

in the lion’s smiling face

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bri has us write self-portrait poems today at dVerse.. doors open at 3pm EST….