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[星子]

The Physiology of Joy
Kathleen Flenniken

In the bleakest centers of the body, researchers
have discovered tiny pockets of joy,
like the undersized bubbles that cling
to the corners of parched mouths.

We're trying to understand, the spokesman said.
He was staring into the camera. They might be
an immune system response to pain
or evidence that joy
in order to be released
must coalesce to a critical mass.
Then he leaned into our living room
to confide

that in his college anatomy class,
sometimes the bodies would sigh
at the end of a long dissection,
an unaccountable flutter under his hands.
Once he was last one out
of that blue gymnasium of a laboratory.
I don't know if it's proof, he said,

but when I switched off the lights
the transom windows glowed.


Kathleen Flenniken
Famous
Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Winner
Bison Books
University of Nebraska Press
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[[ANNA]]

The Physiology of Joy
Kathleen Flenniken

In the bleakest centers of the body, researchers
have discovered tiny pockets of joy,
like the undersized bubbles that cling
to the corners of parched mouths.

We're trying to understand, the spokesman said.
He was staring into the camera. They might be
an immune system response to pain
or evidence that joy
in order to be released
must coalesce to a critical mass.
Then he leaned into our living room
to confide

that in his college anatomy class,
sometimes the bodies would sigh
at the end of a long dissection,
an unaccountable flutter under his hands.
Once he was last one out
of that blue gymnasium of a laboratory.
I don't know if it's proof, he said,

but when I switched off the lights
the transom windows glowed.


Kathleen Flenniken
Famous
Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Winner
Bison Books
University of Nebraska Press
_________________

[星子]

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a good essay to study.
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[[ANNA]]

http://www.poems.com/featured.htm

a good essay to study.
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[ljm001]

That's the way that scientists look at everything.

Joy is part of something that can be broken down to the level at which a student of science may enjoy in a lab to finish his/her paper to make their professor happy.
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[[星海]]

That's the way that scientists look at everything.

Joy is part of something that can be broken down to the level at which a student of science may enjoy in a lab to finish his/her paper to make their professor happy.
_________________
听坡上林涛低鸣，看崖下海浪拍岸