knowledge

she lay beside me as I slumped over

After a long day at work

her voice carried energy as she talked to me about biology 

we learnt about osmosis she said

I perked up. I liked osmosis. 

then she said something about slices of potato in a petri dish

I sat up even more.

petri dish. I was hearing the word now, some thirty years later  

she talked some more but i was stuck with those two musical sciency words 

osmosis in a petri dish 

I said later maybe if we lay side by side

arms touching 

her bio knowledge could pass to me by osmosis 

my bed the petri dish 

I was joking 

but she turned my suggestion over carefully and said she wasn't sure 

is knowledge solid or liquid 

and I was struck 

by the notion 

knowledge could be solid

comforting 

yet malleable 

did knowledge take the shape of the container? 

here was a mystery 

why dies the text disappear

I can't think a line at a time

I need to see what's before me

does this only happen at the end of a page

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