...when sky was earth

If you missed this, while rushing about in a hectic pace, over the last few weeks, I present it here.  Because it should not be missed.  I feel certain you will agree. 

SINGULARITY
by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking)

Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity
we once were?

so compact nobody
needed a bed, or food or money — 

nobody hiding in the school bathroom
or home alone

pulling open the drawer
where the pills are kept.

For every atom belonging to me as good
Belongs to you.   Remember?

There was no   Nature.    No
 them.   No tests

to determine if the elephant
grieves her calf    or if 

the coral reef feels pain.    Trashed
oceans don’t speak English or Farsi or French;

would that we could wake up   to what we were
— when we were ocean    and before that 

to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not

at all — nothing

Comments

[Chris]

Love the poem!

[barbara]

Takes my breath!

[Judy H.]

Love this.