Clinamen, the Neutrino Event

While you’re struggling with your people’s struggles,
Or with the struggles of other people,
Or with your personal, universal
Struggles in coming to terms with your life,

Spare an odd thought for things like neutrinos
That are now, this instant, passing through you,
Already through, you never noticing,
Sailing through the open and uncurtained

Window that your flesh is to neutrinos,
Window wide open to a fine spring day
That is you and your sorrows and struggles
To those marvelously light neutrinos,

That may, once in a very rare while, strike
A proton chiming faintly in your thoughts.