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The Case of the Threaded Honeybee Elm-Embattled BrabbleWave

Posted on April 30, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… Pluck every petal (don’t stop til you get to the center), and you’ll see the deal: The buzzies are busy bickering over the allure of roses, the favored fragrance of free ……….-sia. They’re responding to the wisdom of reluctant … Continue reading →

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the reluctant ripple of small stones on capillary waves

Posted on April 28, 2018 by whimsygizmo

{surface tension}   .. what is it we have learned from pebbled songs? see how they break the skin of this Lake, take a moment to disturb, displace the norm, ………………..create …………………small ………………..unquiet …………………storms.   .. Poetic Asides April PAD … Continue reading →

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Punnett Squares & Open Chairs

Posted on April 8, 2018 by whimsygizmo

They’ve got redheads and green-eyed …………….(monsters) brothers and sisters with curly and some with straight, and at this rate the world may never know who’s who or how it all (dominant, recessive, genotype, phenotype, heterozygous) came together , but when … Continue reading →

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learning the moon

Posted on April 5, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… there’s a logarithm to it all, a waxing and waning in the way she tilts just so, supposes some algebraic sway with her smile. we have written her out (and about) with participles dang -ling, scientific theories wrangling the … Continue reading →

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Partic(ip)le Wave Dualism

Posted on April 30, 2017 by whimsygizmo

… They’re going. They’re shifting sands, changing hands, altering stars. They matter. They’re smattering themselves in nothing less than always, nothing more than forever. They’re clever little waving things, winged cur rents, working theories, bright sigh -entific discoveries. Microscopic dreams. … Continue reading →

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Empty Science

Posted on May 2, 2015 by whimsygizmo

… We have cracked the a -cute code of pebbles, only to find them held (stones, sticks, stems) in curious pockets. We’ve un -locked the saintly track of angel wings, only to wrestle with the memory of their lift. It’s … Continue reading →

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Open Letter to a Philosophical Mathematical Genius

Posted on April 28, 2015 by whimsygizmo

(I think, therefore I am flummoxed.)   . Dear Descartes, If no empty space can exist, ……. ……………………………what then of my heart?     .

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Ordinary Matter

Posted on April 28, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. Forgive us our centers, these (s)matterings of fear and fragile flame, the quirks and quarks that keep us spinning, spilling, ….sinning. Forgive us our pleas for ………..space when the world closes …………………..in. Mass, even when at rest. Volume, even … Continue reading →

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The Science of Stars

Posted on April 16, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. Who hasn’t wished on these intricate faces, facets set in ebony by inertia and our own longing for constellation -esque order? Who hasn’t held a sky in their chest, pressed down their own atmosphere for fear of drowning? Who … Continue reading →

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Simple Machines

Posted on April 16, 2015 by whimsygizmo

… This morning I moved a comma with great effort , wielding that tiny black fulcrum like a wedge, perhaps the lever of a pulley, tugging up the corners of your smile.     ..    

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