Gravitational Waves
An erasure poem from The Atlantic,
“The Dawn of a New Era in Science”
by Matthew Francis February 11, 2016
More than a billion years ago,
more than a billion light-years away,
two black holes spiraled together
gravitational waves rippled across the universe
to an ultra-sensitive detector
another triumph for Einstein
the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy.
The universe a much more interesting place
churned up spacetime,
generating an ever-louder and faster cycle of waves,
far beyond expectations
ripple spacetime,
like rings moving outward in a pond,
an exquisite instrument
astronomical amounts of money,
decades of careful planning,
researchers numbering in the thousands
it was all worth it
Susan Beall Summers is an over-educated, under-achiever who has traveled from the swamplands of South Georgia to the Pyramids of Egypt. She interviews poets for Texas Nafas and Channel Austin, is a member of Writer’s League of Texas, Austin Poetry Society, and Gulf Coast Poets. Publishing credits include Ilya’s Honey, Texas Poetry Calendar, Harbinger Asylum, Yellow Chair Review, Di-Verse-City, Cattails, Frog Pond, and others. She has a full-length collection and a recent chapbook. She has given feature performances across the country and remains unapologetic about her open mic addiction. www.tidalpoolpoet.com
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