Two Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg

 

An End to Quantum Tunneling

 

Waves’ limited range of amplitude impacts sound, also energy.

Short surfs, like tightened springs, can burst much more than

Longer cousins.

 

When we moved through barriers, one was on fire, the other,

Less so. Yet, our union sustained momentum because of our

Persistence.

 

Now, weeks later, it’s impossible to keep sapping. We must

Accept similar “wavelengths” to retain our position in this

Universe.

 

 

 

 

 

Instructors' Manuals as Principled Palp

 

Instructors' manuals vary in idealized content, in realized content, besides form.

They tend to be unusual documents, departmental, unpublished, rhetorical

Statements issued by course directors, other institutional representatives.

 

Generally, they describe teaching methods & grading criteria, vary in idealized

Content of prescribed, described, even metatheorized ethics. That’s why they

Enable generations of instructors to proffer complex, contradictory values.

 

Some are stapled assemblages; others are large, professionally bound, printed

Volumes. Most can be accessed electronically via dedicated websites. Rarely,

They lack contiguity, consist of missives, expose policy-making credentials.

 

These brochures highlight institutions’ critical socialization cycle components,

Not instructors or students’ views. Yet, they’re widely distributed as lesson

Supplements, plus employed to support countless disciplinary practices.

 

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