Physics Trounced by 24-carat Gold
For
Donald
who is dead these many nights and days
I see that in this photo I am blond
But I have never noticed until now
That Donald, too, is yellow-haired beyond
The age of others who went brown. The wow
In this is that while separated by
The darker two, hair-gilded boys still have
Their white gold bond as if they shared a thigh
Between just two . . . as though their love could calve
Affection right across the space of years
Between this pair. Yes, this is weird because
The one was happy; one was stained with tears–
And yet we know that love refuses laws.
Rejecting laws of physics and of time,
Love holds these golden brothers in its rhyme.