CONJUNCTIONS: A Web Exclusive

Music has been Blown off the Surface of this V      i       s       i       b       le  Star Eleni Sikelianos

In my collection of gluons whose color adds up to white: a time the universe was the size of a darkening string; a quark, an antiquark, red + antired, green + antigreen, or blue = white. A glueball, really   —Are there any infinities left? Yes, yes, they still unload the crates of Coca Cola in the winter morning sunlight, some third graders' milk cartons in blue plastic bags waiting on the street corner. What are they waiting for? (The trash collectors.) I will have to eliminate them—the yellow styrofoam lunchboxes stacked together, oily, glistening with history   —Listen: The earth together with all its inhabitants, all demolished and not-demolished things is out there hissing.