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POEMS/ The Universe Without the Higgs Boson

Higgs Boson
The Universe Without the Higgs Boson

Like moonlight we would be
weightless unless this particle

gave us mass and substance.
Without the Boson, our lives

would be only so much gardening
in the dark
.  We would be trapped

at the edge of a fallow field
where a rusted plow marks

the last furrow. Underground
we would listen to earthworms,

voiceless in the mole’s tunnel
without that moment

when the law of balance tips,
and our gardens grow.

Everything interesting,
including ourselves

results from flaws or breaks
in the symmetry --


without these gaps we are
bodiless shades

formless without the dropped
stitch in the knitted row.

The Universe Without the Higgs Boson appears in Migrations (Antrim House, 2013)

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