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1 READING THE SCIENCE NEWS New York Times, July 2010 “We’ve known for a long time gravity doesn’t exist,” Dr. Verlinde said. This adhesion of all mass to itself is following the vector of energy downward with the thermodynamic arrow, which pierces us with our moments. The illusion encloses, scenes in mind return nonsensically— my foot slips on the slick bank and for a moment suspended in falling I know the time slow down, seeing the red-star sweet gum leaf sliding with the current’s surface that holds the late September sky and heat in a thin film. Then I pierce it, splashing through— the rowboat my brother called the Peanut Shell rocking out from the bank while I arise back through the brown creek skin and into air of the dream world I know so well, where Henry is laughing. I see a long-legged water strider dimpling the tension. The water strider and I stay fixed in motion while I swim for the Peanut Shell and flop and rock my way inside where I am still, in the dimension of that separate day, the boat drifting not to anywhere but here, the red, five-pointed leaf afloat beside. ...

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