This body
seven billion billion billion atoms
all agreeing
to cohere—
but sometimes
I sense
a mutiny
*
and seven
billion
billion
billon
atoms
all at once
become bench,
milk, book, leaf,
rye, sign,
street
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84s, atoms, body, catclysm, quantum on October 9, 2011| 1 Comment »
This body
seven billion billion billion atoms
all agreeing
to cohere—
but sometimes
I sense
a mutiny
*
and seven
billion
billion
billon
atoms
all at once
become bench,
milk, book, leaf,
rye, sign,
street
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 84s, emergence on July 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
Once upon a now
our story is being told
urgency and creativity
were not just
for 13.7 billion years ago
Every moment,
wordless poems spiral out
of each living and more than living thing
even silence
sings
And how does it end?
Ask the cricket,
the priest, the night
the only answer:
I don’t know
How exciting!
*Emergence is a universal power that acknowledges how the universe is not just a place, it’s a story–irreversible and ongoing.