Bang
energy infinitely expanding
particles and their evil twins
or waves it’s uncertain
everything related but chaotic
energy infinitely expanding
particles and their evil twins
or waves it’s uncertain
everything related but chaotic
Voiding a black nothing
lusting attraction forcing elemental marriage
molecular gathering gaseous worlds
clotting exploding flaming
capturing lesser spheres
spinning in their influence
lusting attraction forcing elemental marriage
molecular gathering gaseous worlds
clotting exploding flaming
capturing lesser spheres
spinning in their influence
On one such orb
cooling in its unique place
condensing gasses
raining upon the surface
conjuring ever increasing complexity
cooling in its unique place
condensing gasses
raining upon the surface
conjuring ever increasing complexity
In this water world
solid masses drifting
continents forming and reforming
in the ooze
creating itself in its own image
the helical first
directing invisible architecture
solid masses drifting
continents forming and reforming
in the ooze
creating itself in its own image
the helical first
directing invisible architecture
Tiny spheres begetting tiny spheres
begetting spheres of spheres
begetting tubes of spheres
begetting tubes within tubes
begetting swimmers creepers
racers climbers and flyers
begetting spheres of spheres
begetting tubes of spheres
begetting tubes within tubes
begetting swimmers creepers
racers climbers and flyers
Tooth and claw
the fittest fastest hungriest
sexiest and brainiest prevailing
fruitfully filling the orb
subduing it and having dominion
over the swimmers and over the flyers
and over every living thing
the fittest fastest hungriest
sexiest and brainiest prevailing
fruitfully filling the orb
subduing it and having dominion
over the swimmers and over the flyers
and over every living thing
Honoring various gods or various one gods
slaughtered the unbelievers
building monuments to various gods
or to various one gods
or to themselves
slaughtered the unbelievers
building monuments to various gods
or to various one gods
or to themselves
And unto themselves
erecting great cities
devising great technologies
diversifying great cultures
painting on cave walls
printing on papyrus
casting in stone
iron bronze and cathode
sending texts bursts of ones and twos
erecting great cities
devising great technologies
diversifying great cultures
painting on cave walls
printing on papyrus
casting in stone
iron bronze and cathode
sending texts bursts of ones and twos
And all this so I can utter
these words to you
now
these words to you
now
* Einstein’s thought experiment about two people, one in the
middle of the train and one on the platform, observing lightning strokes as the trail sped by gave me an early
primitive idea of space/time relatively. Two TV series “Cosmos: A Spacetime
Odyssey” narrated by Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson inspired me to wonder about it all. I studied Charles
Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” in several biology and philosophy courses
in college and graduate school. Tyler Volk, in his book “Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind”,
expanded my understanding of the overarching architecture of living things I met Kurt Vonnegut in New York and had a
lovely conversation about his writing and his philosophy of the absurd. His
books “Galápagos” and “The Sirens of
Titan” colored my thinking about most things. Finally, I just finished
Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” which prompted me to revisit a poem
that I had written some time ago.
