DRESS UP
To be “dressed”
is to emit
“virtual particles.”
The spirit of “renormalization” is that
an electron
all by itself
can have infinite
mass and charge,
but, when it’s “dressed”…
*
A toddler stares at us
till we look up.
“Flirtatious,” we call it.
She waits
until we get the joke
about being here,
being there.
Photo by Rosanne Olson
Rae Armantrout’s recent books are Money Shot and Versed, both from Wesleyan University Press. Versed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A new collection, Just Saying, is forthcoming from Wesleyan in Feb. 2013. Armantrout teaches writing at UC San Diego.
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