Economies of scale

Wendy Vardaman

    The day a tornado inhales Alabama
    then spits it back, I’m sitting
    with my son at Math Day, listening
    to lectures about how to find
    a black hole and how tsunamis find
    us. It’s simple physics the professor notes: the fishing
    boat hardly notices the small wave lifting
    it upward a few feet, only miles from the shore that’s shortly

    overwhelmed. & earth? speck of nothing passing with ease
    through larger-than-galactic clouds of cosmic gas
    hurled from enormity-collapsed- on-itself. But what
    I still want to know: How does
    the wave gage its distance from the ocean’s
    floor? How does the singularity know the weight of its orbit?

    

Wendy Vardaman - Wendy Vardaman, has a Ph.D. in English from University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University. Co-editor of Verse Wisconsin, her poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. She lives in Madison, WI with husband, Thomas DuBois, has three children, and works for the children’s theater company, The Young Shakespeare Players Wendy Vardaman  in this issue... Tags: Thanal Online, web magazine dedicated for poetry and literature Wendy Vardaman, Economies of scale
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