nicole reynolds - poems


a jealous atom


i wonder if atoms
get jealous
of each other
if the atom
in the spit of a psychopath
wishes it were the atom
in the seed of a sunflower
or if the atom in the
battery waste of a dump
wishes to be the atom
in the lips of a movie star
or the atom in the
first chair violin
of the philharmonic
but surely,
atoms don't have feelings
they are so small



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