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Change of State

from Starguide by Art Schop

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Inspired by a radio lab episode about whether instantaneous changes of state can take place in the natural world -- the writer Malaparte documented a case of a flash freeze caused by spooked horses running into a lake, immediately petrified in ice

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According to Malaparte, the horses fled
Panicked by the fire that licked their heels like Satan’s breath
Leningrad was burning as they rushed toward the lake
And their hooves beset the water that froze about them

Horses once, now no longer, having been through that change of state

Snowflakes descended on the Leningrad estates
Containing each a microbe that had been carried into space
Inexorably falling on the night that knew no end
Returning to the battlefield to cover up the dead

Soldiers once, now no longer, having been through that change of state

And like a sable gown bedecked with gold, the universe enfolds us
Holding her secrets soft within, dark and agnostic
Subject to instantaneous changes

Like Malaparte’s lake the early universe congealed
Cooling and expanding into vast galactic wheels
Now blinking its majesty, we know one thing for sure
Sooner or later it’ll take another form

Existing once, now no longer, having been through that change of state

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from Starguide, released July 23, 2021

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Art Schop Brooklyn, New York

Contemporary rock that's "a mixture of Murder Ballads, Songs from a Room, and Hunky Dory."

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