Physics is how God hides.
It’s what hides him.
What a brilliant disguise!
No one would ever guess.
Except those who did.
But it was guesswork,
conjecture, just like
physics, like working
scientists working.
Flushed out, he was,
his secret, by so few,
a mystic here, a child
there. Always
the option to deny.
That was the point.
That is his point.
Physics is how God
hides so you can be
totally free, freely
free of him as in
the freedom of the glory
of the children of God.
See? So you can
say “There is no God.”
Mia Anderson has published four books of poetry, three in Canada—Appetite (Brick Books, 1988), Chateau Puits ’81 (Oolichan Books, 1992) and Practising Death (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 1997)—and one in the United States—The Sunrise Liturgy (Wipf and Stock, 2012). Her poem “The Antenna” has just won the Montreal International Poetry Prize and, along with “Physics Is How,” will be contained in her next volume, Light Takes, coming out with Cormorant Books in the fall of 2014. She is an Anglican priest in the diocese of Quebec, and was for many years an actor, then a shepherd and grower.
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