Travel & Transitioning

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics (extracts)

I have flown through 20
pages of blue in an airplane

to write my name on the window
with wet fingers:

the transparency
of glass
on glass

waiting to be articulated.

~
Alighting, I shiver
from the lightness of a sky’s foreign touch.

The opening
of a door is this unnoticed;

and irrevocable: Wellingtons and a hat,
wet footsteps on carpet, my shadow
heaving from the weight
of water.

My mother screams to my father.

Her mouth a window
broken by a thrown stone.

Years after, her ability to have travelled
will still take her by surprise.

I have flown through 20
pages of blue in an airplane

to write my name on the window
with wet fingers:

the transparency
of glass
on glass

waiting to be articulated.

~
Alighting, I shiver
from the lightness of a sky’s foreign touch.

The opening
of a door is this unnoticed;

and irrevocable: Wellingtons and a hat,
wet footsteps on carpet, my shadow
heaving from the weight
of water.

My mother screams to my father.

Her mouth a window
broken by a thrown stone.

Years after, her ability to have travelled
will still take her by surprise.