Dead or Alive
burying the / man / alive.
I wonder,
if when Schrödinger
was set inside his casket
they hesitated to lay him in the earth
for fear
they would be
burying the
man
alive.
You can find him now
in Alpbach,
in a cemetery
knocking against
the wood grain
of a man-sized box
maintaining
his quantum
superposition
in the event
that his heart
never really
stopped
beating.
Helena Pantsis (she/they) is an editor, writer and artist from Naarm, Australia with a fond appreciation for the gritty, the dark, and the experimental. Her works have been published in Overland, Island, Meanjin, and Cordite. More can be found at hlnpnts.com.
