Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes | THERE’S SUPERRADIANCE*

THERE’S SUPERRADIANCE*

in the motion of clouds —      concepts spinning
particles      unseen
………….and falling,      dark matter’s
……………………..steady hum —

………….………….………….……..she lives in memory
……………………..now,      communes with cirrocumulus —      today
……………………..less real      than yesterday’s
……………………..still-stirring fires —

……………………..the gentling
……………………..strum of classical guitars,      light and shadow
……………………..in her palms,      her heart —

……………………..VVVVVnight turns time      on its head
……………………..VVVVVVVVVVVmasks the ending
……………………..VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVso there was no fall

……………………..VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVno darkling core
……………………..VVVVVVVVVVVjust crumbled lake-cliffs rising
……………………..VVVVVa winter —

Perhaps we need a different discernment
black holes      where God
divides

time for glide,      friction gone —      planes-of-motion
……………………..backward / forward
……………………..VVVVVflow

 

*“Where God / divides” is a partial quote from the following lines: “Black holes are
where / God divides by zero” from Alice Major’s poem “Zero divided by zero,” in
Welcome to the Anthropocene (2018), University of Alberta Press, p. 6.

 

Author’s Bio

Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes is a Toronto-based poet and author of three collections of poetry. Her fourth collection, Any Waking Morning, will be launched in May, 2019 with Inanna Publications. A 2009 Hawthornden Fellow, her poetry and essays have appeared in journals and edited books in Canada and the UK