A Discursive Universe (poem)

 

The ocean seemed bottomless
except over space and time
where tectonics plates and distant shores
opened and closed like an accordion
played by a kangaroo

Variations on a crustal wave
mountains rising, falling, subsided and subducted
coated by vegetation
slathered with sunrises and settings
lives by the billions misled
willingly to wars like surface tempests
wherein biologicals strive and sometimes die

Wild oceans teaming with life
thrown into nets cast with poisons
toxins dumped into catch-alls
stars would notice
if they thought like distant AI units
with their own fusion power supplies

While the wonder of quantum fluctuations
of a theoretical unification theory
is a semblance
-a portion of reason to formulate a theory
of plank lengths, and meters in a fathomless sea
where nothing calculable surrounded a quantum microdot

The beginning of a relativistic bootstrap of virtually nothing
the continuum of everything being and becoming
a phenomenon within a void without end
breadth or depth comprehensible
wherein the temporal stars and planets
are the measure of meaning
for-itself never to be understood
though mathematical phrases reflect it.