Author: Alzo David-West
swirling leagues
of double stars
and life-pulsating suns,
waving bands
and cosmic rays
and manifold planets turning,
plasma clouds
expanding in the spaces
of the void,
inter-solar orbits
in great eccentric form—
a nova blast explodes,
nuclear fission
on teeming worlds,
quanta and atoms decay;
fields of glimmering
molecules and light
fading on the horizon;
matter
makes a whisper
where once there were orbs;
scattered ice and gas,
like dust, linger
for eons that pass;
then in between
the spaces
of the desolated void,
a rift, a beam, a spark,
and the manifold planets
reforming;
quanta and atoms energize,
fields of glimmering
molecules and light,
and there arise new orbs
from the shattered fragments
of the past;
a generation of revolutions
revives the vast
galactic scene,
a stargazing anthropoid
beholds, sits, and puts its hands
on its soft bearded chin