- Between Experiments
Pavlov’s dog reaches enlightenment: a bell is only a bell. A clear sound outside time. A lightning strike captured on film turns black trees
inside out. Between experiments Pavlov
dissects digestive systems. In addition to bells, he used electric shocks, tuning forks, metronomes. What part of us expects thunder? [End Page 24]
Brent Goodman is the author of Far from Sudden (2013), The Brother Swimming Beneath Me (2009), and two chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sou’wester, Pank, Diode, No Tell Motel, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.