How I Spent the Morning
by Stan Sanvel Rubin
After I unified
quantum field theory
with relativity,
​
I thought of unifying
my family, only
they exist
in the past, which
we know is a kind
of existence
like the understory
of forests
we never see
with its own
gravity, density,
and light
buoyed by
the darkness which
we run our fingers over
in the urgent
non-locality
of dream.
​
Everyone
gets lost there,
and I often am,
waiting
for the smiles
through the leaves.
Stan Sanvel Rubin’s work has appeared in numerous U.S. journals, including Agni, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review, Lumina, La Piccioletta barca and others as well in China, Canada, and Ireland. Four full-length collections include There. Here. (Lost Horse Press) and Hidden Sequel (Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize). He lives on the north Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.