August 2015
I was born in Calabar, Nigeria and lived, among other places, in Egypt and England before settling near Boulder, Colorado with my wife and four children. I'm a computer engineer by trade, but poetry is my passion. My chapbook, Ndewo, Colorado is a Colorado Book Award Winner. In my spare time I snowboard, coach and play soccer, and train in American Kenpo. I am also an editor at Kin Poetry Journal.
Stark Days
We long for that escape
When pretty blurs the real:
And arcs a whip-snapped cape.
We long for that escape;
Days spent glue-snuffed in shape
Oppress us when we feel
We're long for that escape
To prettied-up surreal.
We long for that escape
When pretty blurs the real:
And arcs a whip-snapped cape.
We long for that escape;
Days spent glue-snuffed in shape
Oppress us when we feel
We're long for that escape
To prettied-up surreal.
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Author's Note: Around the turn of the 20th century Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) developed one of the most important laws in physics, though its import is subtle. The Second Law of Thermodynamics defines how entropy increases in a system. A simplification of what entropy means is that even though the amount of energy in that system might stay the same, that energy over time takes on less useful forms, i.e. forms which cannot be readily applied to perform work. A poetic and not really scientific analogy is how in high summer, we layabout humans enjoy more of the sun's direct energy, yet we find ourselves less capable of doing useful work with it.
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August Entropy
Left to right read out the mottoes on sundials,
Stretched the daytime quota of graft and can-do;
Man's proposed is summer's disposed in Boltzmann's
Vacuum of slackness.
Ludwig Boltzmann
©2015 Uche Ogbuji