Edward Nudelman Poems

Matrices of pixels, each dot depending on the next dot.
Two birds times one updraft equals sum of lift and glide.
Graph the sun's fall as a function of a gnat's perception
of time. Are there only a hundred suns in a gnat's life?
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I was splicing a nucleotide
when Thayer walked in with
visitors perusing the lab
for bells and whistles.
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The best team won, but nobody knows how.
Studying the film, you begin to see
chinks and cracks, fault-lines
invariably leading to earthquakes−
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Avogadro's number, sand and stars, buttons
on the universe's dark coat. Pi's repeating infinitum
crafting a new language based on a circle argument.
Planck and Einstein, big C and little h, humongous
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I think I can see my bedroom's peeling wallpaper,
the gaps around my bed, the penned-in notes
to Lynnette and later Marla. I can hear the night's creepy
hush interrupted by my alarm clock's sticking second-hand,
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My father's cigar

burned down to the label
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A hawk's view of a field in the last hour of light.
To understand limitless reach, a concept
withheld from those who are not birds.
To differentiate ocean from water, space
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I must have gotten up every ten minutes
checking carbon monoxide levels.

Sometimes it seems nothing happens
until everything happens; a sudden storm,
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Blue fall of night, stillness
behind an eye. In the fifteenth
hour I stop invoking selfhood
and splayed Byron on his spine.
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The dying ant clings
to a dying ant,
the sheep to her sacrifice.
She bleats for it in a green
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