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Spring So Uneasy

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“Spring So Uneasy” is a collaboration between poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and artist Dina Chang, in which Chang’s visuals provide a stunning photographic take on Bertram’s poem “The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces.” The poem is a muscular lyrical meditation on the physics of tidal forces that simultaneously create solidity and changes of season through rotation and gravitational push/pull and threaten destruction when the same forces of these rotating celestial bodies are brought into too close a contact to sustain their individual integrities. The same phenomenon, Bertram suggests, literally and figuratively applies to earth-bound human bodies and the ways people too are bound to an ungodly planet spinning ferociously through the cosmos. <b>The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces</b> Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees. Spring so uneasy this year. No matter morning’s boundary culling our bodies, another romantic passage assaults us! O limp future centered on this body! In the model solar system, planets suspend & twirl as if from a spider’s whirl. The quantum in backpedal, in decline, spring so un- gripping this year. Bored mouth. Bored fingers. The umpteenth day/night running like such— truly, truly—this troubling with physics! Not still winter, not yet anything. O thuggish awakening. All planets but this one were named after gods.

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