THE OTHER VOICES

for Al Attanasio

 the mirror-people escaped 
from their self-portraits

   individual droplets 

comprising a much larger wave

   creatures of a greater dynamic
whose crest disappears when examined

  the waves of a myriad individuals 

so long as they do not interfere

what breaks down 

into a higher order
 
   the reduced forms who peer

 over  their own event horizon

growing into a greater array

   to look back from whence they came

  broken down from an ionic compound 

and reconstructed by electrostatic forces

  the electrically insulated beings 

of a highly conductive experience

  the few freed electrons of a greater surge 

that made it through the slit

salt to sparks

   sparks to salt