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Penrose Staircase
How can you be here
and somewhere else at the same time how is a particle a wave
I work the timber into place
wedge it up by shoulder
into its spot against the porch
this is the way the stairs begin
I thought through every move
and for two days I measured and cut measured and cut and still
it comes out different than I imagined no precise line is exact though
I believe in the math of it
but the more I go in the human world the farther off the angles seem
and though mathematically impossible two parallel lines do in fact meet
at the door of the house of my dreams
Cole has published four collections of poetry and a novella. His work appears in anthologies such as Best New Writing, Bully Anthology, and Coming Off the Line, and in journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review, Chiron, The Galway Review, Red Rock Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Slipstream. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and Best of the Net, and has received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry, judged by T.R. Hummer; the Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House, and First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” from Tattoo Highway.
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