The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2009

Playing the Cosmic Casino

Mind the place

where E = T and

T≠

E but

n x 10 to the one-hundred twentieth

=

the face of God,

which

is an n-sphere.

The last veil

pulled back?

exposing the belly and breasts of creation?

Where muons share space

and laughter echoes endlessly,

quasars’ mad light—

an extravagant wink,

drunken debauch of constellations.

Knowing what seers,

levitators, magicians

of time and space concede,

what holy men

have always known:

you can never really see yourself

in this closed mirror.

For each step across another

abyss, science seizes the skirts

of theology,

as the raveled edge

of the known universe

shreds away

from its tools

exponentially.

Meg Withers