Wild Grapes: Australian Poetry

Quantum Quirk

Ten thousand miles away
another continent
a different life
the push pull effect is still clear
weird action at a distance
Einstein called it
quantum quirk
we're neither together nor apart
your cut hurts my finger
your failure breaks my heart.

In the quantum world of our
drifted lives
entanglement between us remains
giving mass to my
insubstantial body.

Your face is foggy
with time and distance
the downward draw of gravity
distorting the image
in our mutual mirrors.

Beyond the melting edges of the present
our tiny lives are frozen
in quantum
superposition
love-not love
both here and there
mine and not mine
alive forever and
already dead.

© Magdalena Ball, (originally published in <http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/quarkindex.htm> QuarkSoup / Picaro Press, September, 2006)