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# When Words Collide
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/when-words-collide/
- Published: 2021-07-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: They start by circling each other warily but having no Newtonian mechanics to govern their orbits they dart this way and that flouting the laws of physics and every so often, though rarely crash into a poem
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

They start by circling each other warily  
but having no Newtonian mechanics  
to govern their orbits  
they dart this way and that  
flouting the laws of physics  
and every so often, though rarely  
crash into a poem