Clinamen poetica

"Sometimes", wrote Lucretius, "at uncertain times and places,
the eternal, universal fall of the atoms is disturbed by a very slight deviation - the clinamen. The resulting vortex gives rise to the world, to all natural things."

if we are falling endlessly, relentlessly

then we must take what chances we have
to break these undeviating lines

across voids and infinites,
across that which we can never know

we will stack chance upon chance,
carve out dreams from improbabilities

the shortest distance being: that
which connects one wor(l)d to another

Carri M. Campanile

www.astropoetica.com => summer 07