Poem: ‘The Way of Karma’

Science in meter and verse

By Monica Ong on November 1, 2021

Poem: 'The Way of Karma' — Credit: “The Way of Karma” Composition by Monica Ong (“The Way of Karma” Collage with archival Auntie Betty and map of the Milky Way); “The Starry Grandeur of the Milky Way” from *The Circle of Knowledge: A Classified, Simplified, Visualized Book of Answers*. Editor in chief: Henry W. Ruoff, M.A., Lit.D., D.C.L., The Standard Publication Company, Boston, 1916, page 22 (*Milky Way*)

Edited by Dava Sobel

This article was originally published with the title "The Way of Karma" in Scientific American 325, 5, 24 (November 2021)

doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1121-24

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Monica Ong is a visual poet whose debut collection, Silent Anatomies, won the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry in 2015. Ong is a Kundiman poetry fellow and graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and resides within many distinct institutional collections. Ong is also founder of Proxima Vera, a micropress specializing in literary art and objects. Credit: Nick Higgins

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