Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Astronomy of Poets


Look behind the sun
where light bends
space and time.

Theory is eclipsed
by the shadow of nothing;
the moon an accident
of our solar system

A task of poetry;
poaching metaphors.

To know the nature of humanity
collect flawed data,
mingle with starlight,
build improbable things.

Poet, pacifist
mystical death of impartial magnetism
and two languages
suddenly explode
become observation,
mathematical equations

only to discover
Hades has become ruler
of science spectacles
and the entire known cosmos.