Waves:

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Edward Wang

 

One must have a mind of waves

to see the deep and boundless blue

bearer of bounteous hidden life

 

Or behold the figments of light

That scatter across sparkling space brightly

In crusty Einsteinian theory dual and whole

 

And feel the billowing tide of history,

Ebbing, flowing, a round planet and a round path,

For people who learn and forget between breaths

 

Life itself a foamy bubbling swell

And too, a tranquil languid valley,

Tracing lines between tumult and calm

 

A language, a cycle, the calm, and the storm itself,

A line sine on a clean sheet of graph paper,

A wending, winding thing hidden between all the facts of the world,

 

A wave

 

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Edward Wang graduated in spring 2022 with a double major in Computer Science and BAIT. He’s from Belle Mead, NJ. Edward wrote this poem in a creative writing course taught by Paul Blaney, who selected the piece for publication in WHR.