String theory of hearts


When searching through the manifolds
of dimensions where your strings attach.
I find a single strand among bosonic welts
that connects your beating heart
to the pulsars of Andromeda

Those filaments in ultraviolet
are from cicadas on the naked hills.
Playing in our starlight suite of strings:
the universal truth — begging for release.
From walls topped by bright shards of glass.

Today Grace introduce Eugenio Montale at real toads, showing us how much poetry still remaining to be read. I got a little bit hooked on the concept of mixing scientific terms and idioms into the poetry. This time it’s string-theory and some cosmology. I have also included some quotes from his poem “To rest in shade”. I also link this to Poetry Pantry.

October 12, 2014

32 responses to “String theory of hearts

  1. Oh, I really like ‘filaments in ultraviolet’ which must really be beautiful! And mixing science with idioms is really an interesting concept.

  2. I admire weaving Montale’s verses into your own ~ However, I find these lines very interesting:

    I find a single strand among bosonic welts
    that connects your beating heart
    to the pulsars of Andromeda

    Thanks for linking up with Real Toads & wishing you happy week ~

    Grace

  3. “Those filaments in ultraviolet
    are from cicadas on the naked hills.
    Playing in our starlight suite of strings:
    the universal truth — begging for release.” Brilliant!!!

  4. Interesting how we must all be connected if only as disparate bits of consequence from the first moment of the existence of our universe. Now how do we go about reconnecting those far flung filaments? Nice write.
    Steve K.

  5. Your inclusion of the Cicada causes me to smile…I just saw a special on them last night…how cool they are…they emerge every 14 years to begin a new cycle…although it seems like I hear them every summer so I’m not sure…any way…the idea of crawling from those skins into truth…”starlight suite of strings,” love the wording in this poem, Bjorn!

  6. This is a brilliant blend of natural rhythms with human intelligence superimposed over them. Fine work, Bjorn.

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