All the Many Middle Distances

Always the extremist, you are drawn

to dreams about the glow of the infinity

of Universes many astrophysicists insist

exist dimensionally, interstitially right here

or there or elsewhere. Quirks of quarks

and waves and particles in their equations

bear the likelihood that this is so.

But why do you so yearn to go?

You wish the particles you saw at least

were snow: but no, they are the motes

that float in all the many middle distances

that you’ve investigated, from your bed,

since you were very small. They don’t

suggest another Universe at all.

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