Physics of the Heart

9.8 m / s²
nine
point
eight
meters
per second -
squared;

The rate
all things fall
on earth.

Remember - eighth grade
science class sitting in the back,
Steve to the right - Heather in front,
Mr B. handing down
another

Immutable

Scientific Law;
9.8 m / s², nine
point eight meters
per second - squared -
the rate all things fall
on earth.

Completely disbelieving -
years of prior experimentation
trying to fly -
Bones had to do the math
himself - twice.

Nine point eight meters
per second - squared -
the rate all things fall
on earth; dreams a collection
of photographs - collage - falling,
shattered fragments really,
as though the frame had collided
with the unmovable mass
of reality.

Flashing, stitching themselves together
to create (his) life; a glimpse
of hair, the silken lilt
of voice, laughter - children
known - never met - feathery
touch of the only hand known
to cause these muscles
cessation of the endless
twitching, bits of letter
strewn together - half remembered
conversings as we unfolded
the rose which held hunger
sealed within.

All falling,
all moving
at 9.8 m / s²; nine
point eight meters
per second - squared - the rate
all things fall
on earth.

Unintending,
unsought,
unbound,
by earthly laws
of gravitation he fell -
that dream collage
now falls -
at 9.8 m / s²; nine
point eight meters
per second - squared - the rate
all things fall
on earth?

Twice that rate, more,
he fell willingly
into the gentle warmth,
light, of her mind.

9.8 M / s² -

Except now, gone,
in free-fall
he spins away.

299,792,458 m / s²; two hundred
ninety-nine million, seven
hundred ninety-two thousand, four
hundred fifty eight meters
per second - squared - the rate

Bones

falls

into the night.

_{(Somebody :: 08-04-2010)}