After Making Love She Considers Brownian Motion


The still bodies'
atoms race
toward and away,
carom
as random shifting
particles,
thump
for an instant
molecule to molecule,
slow,
slower.
Still,
there's no end
to microscopic fervor
but temperature.
All raptures
stop at absolute
zero.


  Wendy Carlisle



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