Reductionism without limit?
 

Planck's Angels
by
Kane S. Latranz

For the ancient Greeks
the word "atom"
meant undivided.

In the age of atom smashers
that distinction has been handed down
to the Planck Length.

No one has ever walked the Planck Length
or even seen one.
Couldn't it be halved
quartered,
billionthed, trillionthed?

How many dancing particles
form the head
of a
pi
n
?

First appeared in Philosophy Now

I like it. I couldn't tell you why, exactly. It strikes me as fresh, different. Far from the stale and cliche.

Thank you. Glad you like it. So are you a Fillerbunny fan? :^)

Oh, hellz yes!! Vasquez is God! . . . Why do you ask?

I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I'm particularly fond of the atomic references.

I glanced at your profile and you mention Vasquez. I loved the Fillerbunny! Covered it in a local newspaper column that I had a few years ago.

Thanks IsolatedReptile. Became kind of obsessed with science for awhile there.

I agree. It was odd reading a poem with scientific references, but I think that's part of what makes it work. The warm, poetic language contrasts with a typically "cold, hard" subject.

Thank you, LadyStardust. That is nice of you. :^)

I don't see a 'warm poetic language', but poetry has nothing to do with warmth. That's just a pseudo-romantic illusion to which most wannabe poets ascribe themselves and therefore limit themselves (although if they already had the idea of limiting themselves to 'poetry norms' surely they can't write poetry to begin with)
Just read Ginsberg's America.
In any case, I like this. A lot.

"Warm" probably isn't exactly the right word, though I'm rarely a fan of the mechanical style of poetry . . . I've never taken criticism classes, so the proper terminology escapes me.

I think I know what you mean........... it doesn't have an emotional core, which most people think of as the point of art.

"In any case, I like this. A lot."

Thanks, Godslayer. A lot. :^)

I really enjoyed this but I can't seem to see why, but the ending made me wander down memory lane and remember my first reading of E.E. Cummings' In Just.

Probably the disjointed nature of the last stanza and his poetry.

Hey. Thank you Sir Canvas. It's a nice surprise to get so much positive feedback on such a wee thing.