Characteristics of Nonlinear Systems
The past is an influenza fevering photos of the body.
The past is a flue congested, coated by the rising body.
The past is a mysterious cold spot appearing in the body.
A rhyme is how the past ripples through the body.
is how
a memory is how the past rippled through us
is how
Estuary
I have known myself
to worry
whether it is possible
for a mind / freshwater
to be so open
it falls right
out / brine
Margo LaPierre is a freelance editor and author of Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes (Guernica Editions, 2017). She serves as newsletter editor of Arc Magazine and is a member of poetry collective VII. She is the winner of the 2021 Room Poetry Contest and the 2020 subTerrain Lush Triumphant Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Arc, filling Station, CAROUSEL, PRISM, carte blanche and elsewhere. She is a Creative Writing MFA candidate at UBC. Find her on Twitter @margolapierre.
