what is what was a photon

what is a thing
in motion
when it stops

my photon appears
to have
passed away

and I don’t know
how
to think of it

what
to name it

how
to bury it

I can’t find it
anymore

so used am I
to its movement

to its ray
doing some
thing

or going
some where

it is …
it was

a thing undoubtedly
in motion

and now
my photon
has stopped

~

Poem #352 from a series of poems drawn from the imagination and collected as: a Bachelard reverie.

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