the rules of physics are arcane
and in this case, without application, or so she believed
the mathematical problem that served as preoccupation
involved the notion that it was possible to miss someone,
to intimately know someone, she’d never met
of course, she had always been a champion of relativity
that is, she believed firmly in the bending of time
what had occurred, what had yet to be experienced
the five-year old, her twelve-year-old self, and the grande dame
she felt them all there, all at once, coming and going
concerned with the science of seedless watermelons,
worried the hips were too prominent for a girl not yet thirteen
and pleased with the way it had all worked out
sometimes, it felt a bit crowded
but she found them amazing, found all of them to be beautiful
most especially she was so pleased
that she could assure that five-year-old of the possibilities
of beautiful red fruit free of small obstacles
so you see, it was not a leap, not even a small hop
with regards to her math, to the mathematical conclusion
that A minus an unknown quantity equaled
precisely the experience of a beautiful longing and an intimate knowing
you see, she had really always known him
they just had yet awhile longer to be formally introduced
September 2009
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