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The physics of hippogriffs<\/strong><\/p>\n Horse-eagled lion \u2013 it flies because we wish it. In one, hippogriffs turn airy cartwheels, buzz But in another, QED, hippogriffs wear business suits Somewhere there\u2019s imaginary physics, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Noel Williams<\/strong> is co-editor of Antiphon (antiphon.org.uk<\/a>) and associate editor of Orbis. His poetry has appeared internationally and won several prizes. His collection Out of Breath was published by Cinnamon Press in 2014. Blog at: https:\/\/noelwilliams.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The physics of hippogriffs Horse-eagled lion \u2013 it flies because we wish it. One thing I\u2019ve never understood: if, as science has it, possible worlds are infinite are there more imagineable than we can imagine? In one, hippogriffs turn airy cartwheels, buzz the vineyard, sneak olives from their stakes then wing it over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOne thing I\u2019ve never understood:
\nif, as science has it, possible worlds are infinite
\nare there more imagineable than we can imagine?<\/p>\n
\nthe vineyard, sneak olives from their stakes
\nthen wing it over the alternative Aegean
\nto squeeze into cracks inaccessible in Parnassus,
\nclustering warm in feathered clumps of dung.<\/p>\n
\nhost chat shows, wage war on potato blight
\nand at weekends plant plastic crosses, ankhs and knives
\nhoping for salvation.
\nCount to infinity. Add one.<\/p>\n
\na world where Einstein the Hippogriff
\ninscribes on clouds how creatures of myth
\nexceed the speed of light, glimpsed only by
\nimaginary telescopes.<\/p>\n