Wendy Taylor Carlisle

After Life
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Right and wrong concurrently,
that’s Neils Bohr’s Theory of
Complementarity—
light both wave and particle,
the just description, and yet
contradictory.
Postulate your paradise:
with double jointed houris,
that long conversation with Nietzsche
or Freud. Think
Mozart on the clavier,
Dante over a long dinner. Be eager
to fight for your doctrine. Light,
your conviction; death, the necessary noun.

(photo by Jennifer Smith)