Friday, April 23, 2021

Three Views of the Universe

(rewrite of a poem posted a few years back) 


Sitting on a park bench,

a pool of sunlight before me,

a cosmos of flies:

stars in Brownian motion.


City park at midnight:

moths in lamp-light

with the sudden brilliance of meteorites

streaking from invisibility to invisibility.


Evening sunlight,

a stream of molten silver;

a system of planets

carved into its limestone bed.

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