One recognizes in this risk taking ruminating collage poem of dividing energies divided "half-lives that exceed years."
Nuclear: of a nucleus. "we are born to be awake not be asleep."
Nucleus: the central part or thing about which others are collected. "the littlest world of woman now contains atom."
This is a poem self-consciously on the edge of its annihilation. "as the energy is liberated/one must learn to see." --Tom Beckett
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #1,
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