Five Meters Apart Poem by A.S. Wilson

Five Meters Apart



The summer sun glints off your sunglasses and
Strikes me in the eye and as I begin to twist away
I am reminded of the physics of light and space
And how they’ve found that two electrons,
Separated and alone going in opposite directions
Can behave strangely. One strikes your two-dollar,
Upper-half mirrored shades and bounces
Away at the perpendicular. While the other,
Like a paddle ball stretched to its limit,
Bounces off nothing,
And flies into the
Face of logic
At the same
Angle.

One electron catches in my eye, one tangles in your hair
As we glance at one another and go on our way
To the chapel to visit the family of two brothers.
The older was stricken by a heart attack at 15
And as he lay dying in the hospital,
His grief stricken younger brother, running in
From the summer hot parking lot,
Faltered, fell, and died.
Within minutes of one another
They were speeding away
Into space, at the
Perpendicular,
Five meters
Apart.

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