The poem is still available on the magazine’s website. There is also an audio version available there.

The Primer is a new magazine & EIC Nicole has been so very communicative & attentive with us as she’s put the issue together. I appreciate all the hard work she & her team have put into this issue, it has turned out beyond beautiful & I’m so honored for this little poem to be among the featured works.

I wrote “Imagine that we’re watching a documentary & you argue” while watching a documentary about particle accelerators. The documentary included a little segue questioning the importance of beauty & art alongside science & I felt the hyper-romantic part of my brain kick on.

Imagine that we’re watching a documentary & you argue

that there is no mathematical expression 
of beauty, & I will try. I will say there are numbers 
which fit elegantly inside each other, inside 
themselves. & I will describe your eyes as dark 
universes, the home that nurtures every story 
I’d ever want to tell. Your eyes house undiscovered 
planets & stars so bright I can feel their heat 
as I stand nearby. & I know there is an elegant way 
to describe it all, there is a language, there is 
a hexadecimal code that knows the color 
of each planet’s home soil. There is a degree 
to your smile & an oblivious angle to your gaze
which I have learned to avoid, to remain 
in this state of both existing & not. I suppose
there are a few pixels in your phone 
that could solve for obvious, reveal fractions 
of my heart but you are written 
into the code of the universe. Red bird, 
sunshine, nonexistence; uncertainty
knows a state of both love & not, 
& still there is no place where 
I’m not always & already yours.