Kathleen Heideman

A Mapped Route to the Island of __________

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Statement

Poem will appear in the forthcoming anthology of literary responses to string theory: Riffing on Strings (Scriblerus Press, 2008), anticipated in June. Inspired by the M.I.N.O.S. neutrino project taking place in northern Minnesota's Soudan Mine.


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A Mapped Route to the Island of __________



Excerpt: "Was there fog? Can I blame my navigation errors
on an ordinary layer of interference — say the moon
was luminous at first, large as the eye of a lighthouse,
only clouds came later? Well, then, yes.
It is possible to paddle purposefully for hours
and still miss the shore....."