instead we collide

This drawing was a collaboration, her drawing, my writing. Together on an overcast beach day at Emma Woods.

She and I talked about atoms and how we are made of atoms and how atoms are mostly empty space. Which means that we are mostly empty space. I told her that I had heard something about how we might pass through each other--her hand through mine--except that our atoms are misaligned in just the way that the protons and neutrons in us collide. And that is the property of us that makes us solid.

"It would be fun to walk through things. But then I couldn't give hugs. So I'm glad I'm a solid."
"Me too, Bird. Me too."



Me and Birdie on the beach at Emma Woods.