Tuesday poem #260 : Madhur Anand : Influence is Infinitely Circuital: a found poem

The formerly abused have moved

to action. Tabooed circumstances

matter. It is against my principles

to ignore it.  Nowadays the current

is instantaneous, a curl

of expression. Reversal arises.

The attractive repel one another.

A working agent follows

the bodies pushed together

by translational motion.

It may be worth distorting the lines.

There is only so much latitude.

There are the portions, vanishing, the necessary

smallness, the debatable

amount of needless pressure.

Mystery does not enlighten us in the least

and we are wasted by friction.

A single moving particle,

scarcely any physics in it,

suggests something better.

Personal identity lends itself

to great exhaustion.

Ignore it then by saying

we fall together.

Heaviside, Oliver. (1893) A Gravitational and Electromagnetic Analogy Part I, The Electrician, 31: 281-282

Madhur Anand’s debut book of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (McClelland & Stewart, 2015) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and listed by CBC as one of 10  “trailblazing” Canadian poetry collections to read. Her award-winning prose has appeared in a number of magazines including The Puritan, Brick, and The New Quarterly. More recent poems have appeared in The Walrus, Carte Blanche and CNQ. She currently serves as poetry editor for CNQ.

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