Friday, May 3, 2019

Three views of the universe




I am sitting on a park bench,
 a pool of sunlight before me,
 a cosmos of flies
are stars in Brownian motion.

A city park after midnight.
I am arrested by moths in lamp-light,
their sudden brilliance, meteorites
streaking from invisibility to invisibility.

A stream in afternoon sunlight,
 the innumerable scintillations, pulsing.
Again I see the universe;
and, like beauty, it has no scale.

1 comment:

David Irvine said...

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