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