Nonsensical Science

or, I Can't Really Explain Particle-wave Dualism, But ...

Part icicle, part wave,

part way particular,

part way vast,

a participle, a particle,

a weave, a way of

coming apart, or a part 

of the weave, or the wave

of the future, or

part of the past …

let’s waive that part –

it tickles!

For day 30 of April Poetry Month at 'imaginary garden with real toads', we are asked to grapple with physics, specifically: Particle-wave dualism and the photoelectric effect.  Science isn't nonsense, but my grasp of it – well....