Immanence

I know you stroll 
beyond Andromeda
gazing on Magellanic Clouds,
but I cannot see that far. 

I am stardust 
to Earth-fallen.

Yet I seek you in the autumn rain,
hear you singing in the evening wind.

Your breath fills my empty lungs,
your smile lights my darkened eyes,
and my heart overflows 
with your sacred blood —

love spilling,
Earth-fulfilling.

(11 June 2011 - 2/19/2019)

like water

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like
water
rushing in
trees sing in the breeze, 
in the gale at the end of the
world. sun drops over the edge, spinning world, straining to
break free, by gravity held, trapped
like me as night drops
like water
in the
trees

(3 June 2013)

Debate

The man of science said
that in the beginning
there was nothing,
when
obeying some quantum urge,
suddenly everything
emerged..

and that was all.. .

that was just
the way it happened... no need
for God...just cold, hard
cosmic law.

But the poet,
hearing his breath
rush deep within his lungs,
feeling his heart pound in anticipation,
says to his beloved,

“Ha! I found You!”

(24 April 2014)

A Theory of Everything

The machine lurches

scattering matter through

the expanding void.

With galaxies, stars, and dust,

we glide wondering across

this this vast black balloon,

this every-day universe.

Yet microns away, mirror-wise,

our image turns.

With our dark twin

we slouch towards breathless

equilibrium.

In epoch attraction,

our fabrics collide.

Thus are born

new worlds without end,

and the cosmic machine

grinds on and on

through vacuous eternity.

(27 Sept. 2010)