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Collimated Light

from Straight Lines by Fair-Weather Friend

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Collimated Light

The distance in a single point
is the same between two states.
Deep in thought or two pressed lips,
so much in little space.

Now another line break breaks,
or a negative’s exposed.
Not a picture of Berlin
or a picture of a home.

I thought it was collimated. Come to find I’ve been mistaken all along.
As if by aperture, my sense of you diverge diverge.
The photo’s now clear and intact. Inaction jump-starts quick diffraction.
Now you’re just a good idea I had, I had, I had.

The image I have lingers still,
but doesn’t have a frame.
Somewhere in the past tense buried,
and tucked within a phrase.

I thought it was collimated. Come to find I’ve been mistaken all along.
As if by aperture, my sense of you diverge diverge.
The photo’s now clear and intact. Inaction jump-starts quick diffraction.
Now you’re just a good idea I had, I had, I had.

A familiarity develops oh so perfectly.
Uncared for comfortably isn’t it entirely.
A familiarity develops oh so perfectly,
and it isn’t entirely.

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from Straight Lines, released January 21, 2014

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A perfectly collimated beam with no divergence cannot be created due to diffraction, but light can be approximately collimated by a number of processes, for instance by means of a collimator. Collimated light is sometimes said to be focused at infinity. Fair-Weather Friend is Alex Strong. ... more

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