Not Brownian Motion

A story may float a sea

for a while, a shadow

separated from its life,

buoyed by waves 

until it is fractioned

into particulates and 

subject to an action 

that is not Brownian Motion. 

They are not invisible,

these drowned tales;

a fragment can be caught,

bent and remembered,

by light. 

They are not random;

each movement

has been nudged

by another, but known, and

under the will of the other, 

a direction of slow diffusion

where hope lies

in the promise of a shore.

And it is true

that sometimes hope deceives,

applies a fire, urges kinesis

and we leap into loss: 

the ocean is full 

of the migration of tragedies.

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