Longing in the Age of Quantum Mechanics

At the Tate she rhapsodized
about the shapes

in Braque so I stepped in to see
what it was she saw

Never mind she said
without your broken shadow

playing across his lines
it’s just another boring cubist nude

Lance Larsen is the author of five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows (Tampa, 2018). His poems have appeared in APR, TLS, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Orion, MQR, New York Review of Books, Threepenny Review, Paris Review, New Republic, New England Review, and Best American Poetry 2009.