Particles/Poetry
A poem by Stephen James Moore

Particles/Poetry

& he said what am I made from, who am I, inside?
Faster than light neutrinos viewed by SQUIDS
(superconducting quantum interference devices)
I don’t like groups, he said, I am better off alone
Bosons are more sociable than fermions
I am Pauli’s exclusion principle, you know

Z particles, Higgs – Photino, Zino, Higgsino
Do I have a doppelgänger, somewhere? Out there?
Super symmetric partners – more MACHO
(Massive astrophysical compact halo objects)
A unit of electron volts, divided by the speed of light²
Name the three satellites – COBE, WMAP & Planck

So, that hissing you can hear, out there – It’s not,
the pigeon droppings or scratchings, or whatever
it’s the cosmic microwave background radiation
& you can feel it too, can’t you? Can they?
It’s not tinnitus or aural hallucinations or AI –
X rays, ultraviolet, visible, infra red to microwaves.

Ref: Edwin Morgan

About the Author:

Stephen James Moore was born in Hertfordshire; studied in Newcastle Upon Tyne and Brighton and now lives and writes in Bristol, UK. He works in a cardiac catheterisation suite. He enjoys film, photography, running & literature. He also enjoys beatnik-urban-voodoo.

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