by Katherine Gotthardt
This morning
fifth night in a row
of bad sleep
and … finally I know
what it means
to be
TO BE
both off
… and on!
Dead
… and alive!
Happy
… and unhappy!
Shadow
… and substance!
The speck
beneath
The machine.
Yet the spark!
THE SPARK
That sets
things in motion
No need for 1s or 0s.
That, my dear,
is quantum.
That, my dear,
is poetry!
Note: Thank you to TIME magazine and these authors for the early morning reading and inspiration for this draft. Though WordPress messed up my line breaks, I finally understood, at least partially, what quantum means and could relate to it. And thank you to James Farley of IBM/Octo for unwittingly leading me to the article. And the folks planning World Quantum Day. And to John Berry and Satya Robyn. And vss365. Also Schrödinger. No, I’m not losing my mind. I’m finding it.
