F = m·g
all words fall at the same rate. mass decides nothing but the landing.
motion reduced — the poem holds still.
IIWIND
hold a word against the weather
Fd = ½·ρ·v²·c·A
the field is invisible. the flutter is not.
motion reduced — the poem holds still.
IIIORBIT
throw a word into a new orbit
F = G·m₁m₂ / r²
orbit is falling, endlessly postponed.
motion reduced — the poem holds still.
IVBUOYANCY
drown a word — it rises
Fb = ρ·V·g
what is lighter than its grief comes back up.
motion reduced — the poem holds still.
VENTROPY
click to breathe on it
ΔS ≥ 0
order is borrowed. the debt is always collected.
motion reduced — the poem holds still.
· FIN ·
the well closes.
five poems, five laws, one mass.
written, set, and simulated by hand — verlet integration,
box collisions, spring constraints. no engines were borrowed. Space Grotesk carries the weight; Space Mono keeps the records.
what you threw always came back. that was the point.