May. 16th, 2008

Mangodrink

May. 16th, 2008 04:42 pm
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[unlocked in 2012, well after publication in Strange Horizons.]

After two days of being generally cranky and overworked, I have finally had time to drink a cup of juice and take a nap. Sleep and vitamin C -> big thumbs up.

I'm hungry all the time these days, even though I'm eating more. I wonder I am actually thinking so hard and so continually that my brain is clocking through calories. This strikes me as highly silly. But possible.

I wrote this poem about a week ago for my friends Summer and Austin:

Summer and Austin Have Left Their Apartment For a House

I meant to write a poem for your wedding
about superfluids. About quantized groupings
whose singular momentum pushes up and over containers -
about transmission of heat, creation of vortices,
the creation of h/m proportions of vortices
where h is plank's constant -
a spun bucket that holds a dozen whirlpools.

I meant to write that you were aligned together
in the same quantum state,
and could not be contained. I meant to write
a poem of matter, of transition points -
of energy that transforms liquid to gas -
of boiling water at a steady temperature
as molecules leap into vapor.

They don't use the term latent heat anymore.
I can't use it to say you've changed states.
It was a long time building, only seeming
the same, like boiling water, as you transformed
into something that rises.
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About a month ago, my hair length transitioned from long-for-Romie (which counts anything beyond my ears) to flat-out long. It is odd to find there is such a discrete point between the two, but I know there is because people who see me every day now say "oh, your hair has gotten so long!" I expect this from people who don't see me for months at a time, but this is something different. It's like some milimeter somewhere crossed a finish line I couldn't see.

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