Sunday, December 21, 2014

Air

Air

In the crowded room
at ten meters apart,
electrically,
we are separated
by a salty ocean
100,000 light years wide,
the diameter 
of the Milky Way's disk,
spiraling
with 200 billion stars.
However, if gazing across
an earthly ocean
we are separated
by not even an angstrom
of air,
and the particles
leap to touch
across the gaps of nothing.

-Robert L. Jackson III


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