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The brat science - a reading for Katharine Allard - Lloyd Godman

As light expands outward in a diminishing manner,
(Science calls it the inverse square law)

it draws an intensity of being along with it,

pulls out something else

but, being does not diminish in its travel as light does

no it intensifies at a point, focuses at a place where the viewer confronts it

headlong in a meeting and the “someone” in the image  does not end

and here an experience takes place,

 it becomes a space of inexhaustible persuasion

intimate revealing

there is an altercation between factions

between the death of daylight and the incandescent moment

blurred in rotation through space the as the subject moves

the eye is lost in the vagaries of travel while the I is  discovered

But it is supported by the flick of a switch and the electromagnetic force

at this point wonder steps forward unclaimed by the brat science

 

 

© Lloyd Godman