The edges
were beginning to bend
blur
and
blend
into the background
as if they
weren’t
even
there.
She had never given much thought to
string theory before,
but as she started to see
the attached parts
slip
and
separate freely,
she could understand the spaghetti
of how they were formed
and once used to fit,
encircling each other
even though ends
beginnings
middles
centers
were now torn.
As they
split
shredded
u
n
r
a
v
e
l
e
d
it suddenly
made sense again.
What once belonged together
and theoretically still should
had been ripped apart
from within.