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Multiverse 1

Our here-to-there flutters
      with all the ways
We can or could have been.
When panic overtakes me
      in confined places,
This larger context comforts me;
I imagine pressing sideways
      from my life and
Emerging elsewhere.
  
Orthogonal to you and me
      are worlds where
This was never written,
      and never read.
We bifurcate into futures
      that we once contained
And are remembered now
      only when we dream.

This poem was published in the Fall 2015 issue of Space and Time.