| Karren Alenier USA karren@alenier.com FLIRTING We are a pair of particles flying apart in a thought experiment. My reality defines yours. This horror hinges on unpredictable choices we each make as we leave our common center. We defy quantum mechanics. We go beyond relativity. It's spooky action at a distance -- that faster-than-light message: you send me. --Published in Quantum Tao (Houston, Tx) DOWN THE WORMHOLE No No on No one None on None off Solid Then punched Dark Then light Bright Noon No shadow Midnight No shadow Zero Fool In love Tries to travel His universe To hers Black hole Hungry White hole Full Gravid star Fool In love Travels to try His universe Through hers No No on No one None on None off SEDUCTION THEORY How did the universe become lumpy with stars, asteroids, Mother Earth? In those moments before the Big Bang's burst, a pod full of unexpected seed, body and soul were one. Scientists say cosmic strings longer than time redefine gravity. Maybe the Great Attractor, ultimate pimp with his galaxies of hourglass girls looking for new business, roots out these lines that palpitate and collide like human hearts thumping for union. --Published in Quantum Tao (Houston, Tx) TREE POSE: A MEDITATION Robin moves us
from warrior
lunge to tree.
Unmindful
but rooted
I relive
Mr. Cooper digging
his spikes into the trunk
of our cedar. It’s fragrant
droppings clogging
the gutters and down-
spouts.
Robin asks us to shift
left leg to right. This time I drift
back a week, watch my husband
in the rain on the roof, saw in hand,
slicing small branches from the trouble-
some pine. Jim says “don’t you want
to see the problem up close?”
Robin
reminds the class to breathe into the gut,
to maintain the balance,
to be the tree, the one
Mr. Cooper felled
in minutes
SPOKES NINTH HEXAGRAM FROM THE I CHING Eyes averted,
man and wife did not speak.
The wheel
broken; spokes radiating
in all directions.
They watched clouds gather above the western ridge.
Shadows hid like scorpions under rocks.
Listening to their neighbor’s cattle
lowing in the adjacent meadow,
she warned him to stay at home.
The rain passed, the moon dimmed.
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