6/16/2017 4 Comments Poetry by Lauren SarrantonioIntroductory Physics I don't understand how god could possibly have a plan for each of us-- Could the creator of a chaotic universe ever be so organized? Yet how could the lips of feathers be so perfect by mistake, as if the Big Bang was the work of cosmic butter fingers, as if we were made of nitrogen, hydrogen, star stuff by convenience. The same way light is fast, but light is lazy; it will travel only straight ahead for whatever is nearest to it. Light will not bend and turn to meet some certain stone. Touched by trees strewn over the mountainside like bodies-- they turn for light, and not vice versa. Never vice versa. How we philosophize ways to save the world while the world pursues entropy, dark forests dance, holding a silence only snow can inspire. A version of the truth: I once read truth is a pathless land, and so I move wherever the light can catch me. The Butterfly Effect While babysitting I told the girls, "Throw ice cubes out the back door, maybe you'll get a snow day." Dutifully collecting freezer ice into plastic cups, they stood together in the door frame, the ice hurled on one, two, three, into the air, landing two feet in front of them between overgrown winter grass. "I think it's colder already," said the ten year old, in pride. "Yeah, that changed the weather all over the world," the nine year old dramatized a shiver, and I wondered if she knew how right she was. Bio: Lauren Sarrantonio is studying to be a speech-language pathologist, but in between seconds, she enjoys running from the wind that's pushed her here. Find more of her work in Twelve Point Collective, Gandy Dancer, Teen Art Gallery's Green Light, and Outrageous Fortune.
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I really enjoyed these poems. There was a sophisticated simplicity tackling difficult, ageless questions that man has battled since the beginning. What I appreciated was the opportunity to view & think of them in a different way. There were childlike qualities that made it more profound. Well done.
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Lauren
2/28/2018 07:32:55 pm
Thank you. It’s deeply appreciated
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Ashley
6/21/2017 01:15:42 pm
Love these poems!
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Lauren
2/28/2018 07:33:18 pm
Thank you!
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