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Singular Socks

Susan Linville

Poetry
Science Fiction

Einstein must have suspected
Hawking surely knew
Every load has its Chandrasekhar limit
Laundry atoms colliding and coalescing
Sufficiently dense
For a black hole

Sock pairs
Right and Left interchangeable
Sock and anti-sock
Unable to violate the second law
Walking along the event horizon

Cotton or nylon
A singularity escape
Through worm holes
Not moth holes

Virtual socks
Enter uncertainty travel
At no absolute time

A baby universe
Filled with

Missing socks

                                                 



 

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Copyright 2009, Susan Linville. All rights reserved.

Susan Linville has a PhD in biology and is currently working as a freelance writer, creating scripts for Indiana University's NPR series, A Moment of Science. She has published over a dozen short stories and her non-fiction publications include newspaper and science articles. Her first published book, a co-written memoir entitled The Price of Stones, will be released by Viking-Penguin in June 2010.


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