quotations from a long ago field trip
pebbles of bone & milk drops of rounded
geology looking like tiny tiny—
pebbles worn by water ice & sand
just like the dancer warming up
up & down up & down up &—
support your body weight on
the tips of your toes
before the première before the limno-
logists break into applause before the
crème brûlée sugar crust breaks—
smooth pebbles as smooth as a cathedral
of bones and flesh hovering over piano
keys, fingertips unlocking—
Florence Lenaers is currently a physics PhD student at the University of Liège (Belgium), where she weaves tales of atoms trapped in cages of light. Her poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Strange Horizons and in And Other Poems.