Issue 3: Catherine McGuire

Gorge Amphitheater; George, Washington, Sept. 2009

Unobtanium

If you bang something together

fast enough, something new happens.

That’s what they say, and despite

the breakdowns, the leaks that poison

some chance areas, we are

going faster all the time. Ad astra! Like startled birds

banging against clear panes,

we don’t see glass walls or ceilings –

we dart and veer, hurling through

narrow lives at supersonic speeds.

Hey! This is the good life! we gasp,

when there’s time. Excited particles,

global experiment – monitored,

vectored, we Tron through our jobs and fun

and if sometimes we crash, well –

death is a new state.

--Catherine McGuire

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