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Paul R.
Toppo
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Permutation
The human panes that sandwich eternity
between a pair of scared thighs, cry
foul as they soar,
even raising welts on stars oddly,
above and out of
their own mythic
proportion
and juggling the constellations
until a quick physics catches
the trick, to pitch them back, one by one
into polluted pools of chance;
so the winding snake of pearly souls
twitters and trembles
before an epileptic goddess
at the poet’s fingertips,
because when the verses finally cool
their little jets,
the molecules must always align themselves
into tears,
(singing their teary theory of strings
Into a tiny mathematical proof
of Hell)
Born 1959 and raised in
the New York city area,
Mr. Toppo graduated from
the University of
Connecticut with degrees
in Chemistry and
Mathematics. He has
lived in Spain, Puerto
Rico and México and
currently works in
Trenton, New Jersey, but
spends half the year in
Mexico City with his
son, who continues to be
his adoration.
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