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Strung Together

Strung Together. A collage poem constructed from sampled bits of the original poems published in the new book Riffing on Strings – Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory , published by Scriblerus Press , 2008. She couldn’t fall asleep had watched a program on PBS

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Strung Together

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  1. Strung Together A collage poem constructed from sampled bits of the original poems published in the new book Riffing on Strings – Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory, published by Scriblerus Press, 2008.

  2. She couldn’t fall asleep had watched a program on PBS about string theories, membranes, parallel universes, gravity…

  3. But maybe she just couldn’t knit.

  4. Air is full of mistaken stars & the wiggly half-zeroes stripes make when folded into fabric

  5. and in no time we started to unravel we spent the oddest days searching for our ends.

  6. We were budding physicists; we were burnouts trying to get comfortable with mystery

  7. To verify the absolute minimum something, a shadow of a spasming string, of what else to call it but god?

  8. Frequencies configuring space and time numerating our senses our skins our desires

  9. Flat in singularity with our undone strings… until we’re less than puff, slit by passing planets into branes

  10. Strongly tied a galaxy held equations knit a symmetry of Nature

  11. Matter and its opposite hiccup gulped in the big lipped, ink-black hole

  12. under swimming the eleven strings of a space they will never enter through eleven curled membranes they can never imagine

  13. But what is it? what noun placed next to what verb modified by what adverb holds the secret?

  14. Dark matter evidently holds a key to communicating across dimensions

  15. dimensions beyond the three up and down side to side back and forth

  16. Dimensions pulled like taffy strings

  17. At least one of these dimensions blurs at the speed of a plucked guitar string, becomes uniformly invisible and able to inhabit more space than it ought

  18. I am so tiny science has not figured out a way to define me

  19. And yet my thread is real? How am I so unreal

  20. Begin with a line, remove the middle third. Remove the middle third of the segments. Do it again and so on. Only a dust of points remains

  21. clutch quanta catch thread make bed of messy everything but the numbers will tell

  22. The physics of living tangles the common there is another Universe filled with old rubber bands

  23. Let me finger their eurhythmytic. And you’ll see I’m self-thought

  24. The undulating lines of pure thought that describe the theory of everything

  25. Broken strings littered the floors of physics departments everywhere

  26. Rolled hems stiffening in the wind, strung out upon a sagging stretch of line

  27. Only their orbital keeps them from falling into recurring dreams.

  28. To this day there is still nothing to prove.

  29. Many strings compared to one when the universe shrinks into a dot the string’s end has frayed into ten strands, which themselves can be unwound into 26.

  30. String Theory posits no events when it isn’t metaphor, donut twists in matter – 10 to the minus 33 cm—

  31. And in the toy chest of infinities both larger and smaller sets can be found side by side

  32. On the other hand, silly string may underpin much of the universe

  33. string that’s super symmetric particles passing through your house and body

  34. (I’m picking up super vibrations from my GUT to my TOE)

  35. A maddening locomotion imperatives imbuing shimmering

  36. Angels wracking their branes to tune the superstrings of their harp’s fundamentals

  37. remember that all motion is trying to be perfected, to be still

  38. to loop and loop in wavicles of joy that make me matter

  39. How many possible routes, how many maps rolled into tubes, tubes pulled taught into strings folding into points?

  40. Trying to calculate Horizon, the line strong between water and night

  41. the whirl of charmed quarks

  42. Extra dimensions, parallel universes, the whole over-loaded wagon held together with tiny bits of string

  43. those fickers which are returnally reprodictive of themselves

  44. we can’t renounce the invisible, the fluid foundation of the solidly seen. We can only imagine and speak in shrinking untruths

  45. the ordering will come the tight weave will expose its structure and dimensions will blink our eyes

  46. Wobbly fibres coaxed from eternity

  47. You were unraveled in childhood until you were everything.

  48. Strung Together Sampled contributors to this collage poem: Cecilia Vicuña and James O’Hern, Colette Inez, Dave Morrison, Joseph Radke, Kathleen M. Heideman, Bruce Holland Rogers, Michelle Morgan, Robert Borski, Sandy Beck, Elaine Terranova, Diane Shipley DeCillis, Lauren Gunderson, Cherryl E. Garner, Deborah P. Kolodji, Mary Margaret Serpento, ushi, oino sakai, assu, and Lucinda Borkenhagen, Michael Ricciardi, David Hurst, Brenda Hillman, Jeff P. Jones, Heather Holliger, Linda Nemec Foster, Susan Zwinger, Wendy Vardaman, Christine Klocek-Lim, Cleo Fellers Kocol, Beret Skorpen-Tifft. Also: James Joyce (Finnegans Wake) Collaged poem & power point by M. Ricciardi Riffing on Strings – Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory was edited by Sean Miller and Shveta Verma, and published by Scriblerus Press, 2008 • Winner of an IPPY Silver Medal (Creative Non-fiction) 2008/9

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