All The World's A Piece Poem by Roy Ballard

In "The Garden of Evening Mists"

by Tan Twang Eng I read

"When the work is done, it is time to leave,

That is the way of the Tao…"

I put the book down

and did something else

then continued to read:

"It is incorrect to think of pairs in isolation;

the BCS state is not simply

a number of individual states…"

Seamless it seemed

for just a moment,

but I had carelessly picked up

Stephen Blundell's

"A Very Short Introduction to Superconductivity"

instead of "The Garden of Evening Mists"

and for a moment this conjunction showed

all the world a piece.