Daye 8 / Snags

''hello out there
I hope you know your relativity...''

a tiny piece
of space time
snags itself
on something hidden
and you and I
drift off on a
new world line

so
a minute ago
we won't even know

we're in a dip
it's just a glitch
sometimes physics
is a heartless bitch
and somebody you love
drifts off on a
new world line

***

she's afraid of fields and hedgerows
and winding lanes
that lead nowhere
she shakes and cries out
says she can't stand
that they all look the same
she dislikes the hills
that surround the village
she says they emphasize the valley
which is much deeper
than any valley ought to be
and she's fearful
of the night blue sky
because it stretches for eternity
and compels her
to consider things
that ought
not to be considered
clouds horrify her
if she looks up into them for too long
she can feel the weight
of the water hidden inside
and they begin to press themselves down on her
sometimes they cloak the whole sky
or blank out the light of the moon
but she needed to know
the secrets of the clouds
and twenty-five years of study
have taught her how and when they will burst
and why they look like they do
and what happens on the inside
but still
she will hide herself away at the first hint of rain
indoors or in a ditch
she refuses to feel
the rain on her face again
it reminds her too much of her childhood
which is all spent
and exists only in this timeline long past
or in a parallel universe
where it branched off years ago
after snagging a time loop