Tuesday, October 5, 2021

This Time Around


This time around I’d like to write 
In a lineated 
Barn the swallows 
Fly in quick tight turns 
And dives and the straw smells 
Of straw and there’s no other way to put it 
Human beings die from lack of contact 
With the real world blackberries 
Grow on thorny vines and it’s a mess
To disentangle in the mind 
For example Paul Dirac
Observed that God 
Used beautiful mathematics 
In creating the world 
And is the preferred language 
For describing swallows 
Unlike the cubic crystal lattice 
Where gravity condenses matter 
Into galaxies stars and swallows 
Behave as if nothing 
Existed but air 
The blue globe of planet Earth 
And Dirac so loved Cher 
He bought a color TV 
And watched her adoringly 
In the sweet Florida night 
Massive particles spin 
Around an axis of love 
As Cher sings if only 
I could turn back time

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