A Cloud of Possibility

Learned [ones]

of the twentieth century, armed with large

finite numbers and radiotelescopes

as big as football fields to measure the pulse of light

from stars beyond the range

of human vision, conclude that this world,

as we call nature,

was once inside such a star.

Heisenberg shrugs

and says, “I am not sure what an electron is,

but it’s something like a cloud of possibilities.”

Kathleen Norris