Lonnie Hicks Poems

The news yesterday was that at Geneva an accelerator detected neutrinos moving at a speed exceeding that of light, a speed that Einstein and modern physics have for over a century said was impossible.

These results have to be independently verified by other labs and experimenters but, if they become verified, we are at a milestone in modern physics, in modern science and in our understanding of nature.
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If I can by the weight of my mind
affect the frequencies between
you and I
and mere proximity
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The climbing high was stone by stone
bloodied hands and striated hearts
scattered behind on the trail;
some crying years
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Step by step her fate clicked, her hand shook,
her heart mixed, of love for him, and love for Him
and love for her baby seed.
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Dying is such a huge responsibility
I'm not sure I'll even attend.

Will there be sad tears
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He had a face of chiseled granite
complete with stony smile
that face is embedded in my heart
which lies clutched here
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You shot me with those frozen bullet eyes
which at first ice-berged the center of my soul

but I didn't die.
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You lay now on your silver bed
flowers all around

and that seems right;
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I have an album collection
of moments
stray and deliberate;
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The day ejected me like bad Taco
and I tumbled out onto my mattress
prepared to stare up at my mobile all night.
Sleep would not come to me in that darkness.
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