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ISSUE 3: NIMBUS

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LIAM STRONG

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the photoelectric effect & the other tragedies of the universe

Liam Strong | Poetry

After Fading Star (1884) by Witold Pruszkowski

some physic / -ists theorize entanglement / as a pathway toward hidden /

variables / the likes / of which not un / -like you &

 

i / it’s not billiards / it’s darts / yeah the aim / precision the size / of a diode / the meaning

of what’s between / each inaccuracy / is just / inaccuracy / consider how

 

hydrogen wave / functions predict bright / -ness / the inexact / location our tungsten 

bolts might / land / there’s the potential / barrier that / a slight 

 

breeze or exhale / messed up your / shot but / i argue that / your electrons didn’t /

have the energy / to reach more / than finite solutions / the highest you can

 

score is 180 / a reversal / a hyperbolic ton / a retreat / from a falling / 

star / consider the bolide / a meteoroid flourishing / upon collision 

 

with the atmosphere / forsaken orphan / of an oyster / we don’t celebrate

our losses / with chalices / of shorn fire / look / i’m not at /

 

the center again / you have a chance / i know your / forehead sheens with /

particles of sodium / which means / the correspondence /

 

principle is off / kilter / our game / doesn’t apply / to SchrÓ§dinger or Bohr /

our game / a conquest / of the wrist / the small space / where 

 

you don’t exist / & i don’t / but the unknowable / bell slope / of probability

where your / sober arrow / passes invariably / 

 

through the flesh / of the century / plant / the board / what constitutes a 

scientific discovery / the body we forget / the one we want / 

 

skewered down / to the subatomic / it’s what i always / hoped / not the

align / -ment of astral light / but the feeling / of something 

 

i can’t / or just won’t / describe / because it doesn’t / matter when you’ve

got your ending / because it looks like / you got your wish

POETRY WINNER OF THE 2023 EKPHRASIS CONTEST WITH HEALTHLINE ZINE AND SWIM PRESS
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Liam Strong (they/them) is a queer neurodivergent cottagecore straight edge punk writer who has earned their B.A. in writing from University of Wisconsin-Superior. They are the author of the chapbook everyone's left the hometown show (Bottlecap Press, 2023). You can find their poetry and essays in Impossible Archetype and Emerald City, among several others. They are most likely gardening and listening to Bitter Truth somewhere in Northern Michigan.

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