A tiny object, maybe a
tinier orbit, maybe a totally
other model about things of
matter: a treatise of maybe.

        ~ ~ ~

And then: on mountains acrobats
teetered or made attempts, trials,
offences more appropriate to other
makers, angels, trinities—obsolete mysteries.

        ~ ~ ~

Assimilation: those orbitals make attraction
tighten or meander. Angstroms: the
odd measure, asking these oscillations’
momentum. Armament: the omnipotent method.

        ~ ~ ~

At that one moment, after
testing offers meaning, advance two
other machines. Airdrop them over
modernity. And then, only more.
 
 
 

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Anna Leahy is the author of the nonfiction book Tumor (Bloomsbury) and the poetry books Aperture (Shearsman) and Constituents of Matter (Kent State University Press). She directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University, where she edits the international poetry journal TAB. See more at www.amleahy.com.