Word fragments sourced from a quantum physics chapter explaining "The Parabola and The Pendulum". Exemplifying how poetics can be found embedded within scientific and technical forms of language.
bear curious resemblances
a successor to our hero
objects fall
into the air
each soars away
a graceful arc
of sublime
string suspended
a great height
an old tire tied
swings to and fro
sun and moon pull
earths oceans
to create the tides
human history
in a burst of
three laws
once you know
I will give you the future
our knowledge
wind or water
and so on
absurdly simple-looking
the separation
as small as
one of the stars
one-ninth
our sun
our weight on earth
so close
of this planet
pendulums
stretches of space
vast
between earth and the sun
singular
two-body
of which pulls
not-so-small
in the vast
out across
as far as
forever
a moment to contemplate
falling toward the center
the moon hovers
tugging at our oceans
nearly circular
curve around in
tens or even hundreds
before returning
the universe
one or two simple
outcomes