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Wet Work

A Sonnet

By D. J. ReddallPublished about a year ago • 1 min read
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A particle one moment, next a wave

Who can lucidly define energy?

More than, “the power to do work,” we crave

Who can make water legible, like thee?

Our anxious search for order and meaning

Ought to have seen both in your subtle craft

These could be cells, through our own veins streaming

Those blind to this strange beauty must be daft

You divide water into nations proud

Happy in their lapping, bubbling truce;

Each one as polymorphous as a cloud

What strange symmetry: bound, each one is loose

Matter and energy we think we know

What else are we, through whom both freely flow?

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D. J. Reddall

I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.

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    Written by D. J. Reddall