Red Mug, Blue Linen : I think there'll be no last one in

Sunday, May 24, 2015

But fruit still fills our sudden branches,
The wind still what makes us move.

Nathaniel Perry
Nine Acres
Grafting Fruit Trees
[fragment]
American Poetry Review
Copper Canyon Press
2011©

Laurent

Laurent: Writing to a colleague in the 1930s, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli confessed, “I have done a terrible thing. I’ve postulated a particle that can not be detected.” Eventually, Pauli won the Nobel Prize for his Exclusion Principle, i.e., all material particles exhibit space-occupying behaviour - and could very well fall within the province of restaurants. I wonder if red mug, blue linen will be that terrible thing, a postulate without a particle - that a gentleman is only that creature whose nourishment occupies no space. But whether that is true, is less urgent to know than where it comes from.

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