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Spring 2016

Theory of Relativity 
Kalman Victor

​though feeling at rest
              nerves
are also
              matter
    comprised of concentric elisions
              reacting
                 to forces larger
as is my abstract nature
                  as object/subject
bound up in entropy

staring through cracked iris
      my own vision shimmers
              back into memory
I cannot sense
                            if I am alone
                or what solitude means
or what could ever
                           possibly
                be uniform
                              about observation
or who draws the line
                           of my shadow

but she is still there
             fixed particulate
                            in mind
              in oscillation
flickered               flickering               will flicker
              in                          out
                             in cosmogony
                             in           light
                             in           constant aimless pursuit
                     too far still from from terminus
                                             from start
                              sodden heavy with relativity
                              in the theoretical
                                            where I began        
beginning            will begin
              with the rest of the everything

// KALMAN VICTOR is a senior in Columbia College and Creative Editor for The Current.  He can be reached at ksv2110@columbia.edu.