Contents
I
Ode to Dark Matter
Elegy in the Form of a Pomegranate
The Day Before
Red Giant
Supermassive Star
Maybe
Neurosurgery
Eve Splits the Apple
Broaden the Subject
II
The Law of the Conservation of Mass
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Metaphors of Mass Destruction
Psalm of the Israeli Grenade
Newton's Apple
Prism
Elegy in the Form of an Octopus
III
Eve's Apple
The Law of Inertia
Impossible Things
Electron Cloud
Centrifugal Force
Orionid Meteor
Elegy in the Form of Endangered Species
There Is a Room in the Four Dimensions of the Space-Time Continuum
IV
Elegy in the Form of Porcelain
Sonnet in the Higgs Field
Ode to a Fractured Conch
Elegy in the Form of Steam
Metamorphosis
V
How to Eat a Pomegranate
Elegy in the Form of a Butterfly Bush
Lithium
Sonnet on a Hook
Ode to a Rotting Apple
Amaryllis
Alchemy
Ode to the Returned
Ode to the Sun
Notes
Acknowledgments

¿Both carefully observed and daringly philosophical . . . The cosmos aches, as it did for Orpheus and for Gilgamesh, and as it did for Eve.¿ ¿MARK DOTY

Brooke Matson is the author of one previous collection of poems, The Moons. Her poems have most recently appeared in TAYO, Potomac Review, and Prairie Schooner, and have been selected for anthologies such as Towers & Dungeons and Railtown Almanac. She is also a book artist and a recipient of an Artist Trust Grant for Artist Projects and a Centrum residency. She currently resides in Spokane, Washington, where she is the executive director of Spark Central, a nonprofit dedicated to igniting creativity.