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Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, in 1947, and grew up...
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Chirality

 
by Rae Armantrout

If I didn't need 
to do anything,
would I?

Would I oscillate
in two
or three dimensions?

Would I summon
a beholder

and change chirality
for "him"?

A massless particle
passes through the void
with no resistance.

Ask what it means
to pass through the void.

Ask how it differs
from not passing.









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