Being and Nothingness

by Fariel Shafee

I.

Uncertainty accommodates unreality to borrow

bites from the

existent and weave a field of

emotions;

there, ideas and

counterparts

pop up, and then annihilate

like pairs of virtual

particles.

That frothy feeling is

ambiguous, until a certain

smoky dream

is caught in the mesh of

molecules and becomes

real.

II.

A star froze in the heaven, and

fell

shooting down to the

walkway.

There, layers of the

molecules, disciplined,

folded within a fractal, razor

sharp together,

quaffed away the

freedom of a

tiny patch of skin,

and dropped down

on the ground, shapeless,

to be carried away

in bits by

air and earth.
 
© 2010 Fariel Shafee.  All rights reserved.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fariel Shaffee has worked mainly in science, but enjoys writing and art.  Her poetry and prose have appeared in DecomP, Ygdrasil, Oak Bend Review, BluePrint Review, Skive, and many others.  She has also exhibited art internationally.  If you would like to see more of Fariel's work, click here.