A new dwarf planet was discovered recently. The discovery of those new small planets in the Oort Cloud and beyond is a prompt for new science fiction books. It is interesting to read about the great time it takes for even the new one to make one orbit around the sun- 23,000 years, because it travels so far out into space. Those dwarf planets (the new one is about 700 miles in diameter) are remote places people may live one day.
Maybe there is a way to fit those neat clumps into poetry and prose. I should have a theme for each poetry collection, yet my time for thinking about that is generally minimal. I have packaged them in chronological order unfortunately. Title selection was a summary of what the bulk of the poems were. For instance; Alexander Archipelago Transition Space was the title of one. It was a reference to the passing of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and to the Alexander Archipelago that is the name for all of the thousand islands, more or less, of S.E. Alaska where I write a lot. About the dwarf planets. I haven’t thought about it much. There are many ways to utilize them in plotting.
One might for example, build a life-size time capsule upon some of those erratics to outlive the self-destruction of the Earth by the population warring upon itself. Each of the planets could have a different kind of package to try to restart human life on Earth after it destroyed itself. The attempts to get life restarted could go on for a billion years. When the orbital perihelion brought a dwarf world closest to the sun and Earth the miracle grow package would fly over to Earth and give it a try to restart.
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A friend and I were discussing a poem about the phenomenal Universe and my effort to describe an ungrounded point of view beyond the linear physics paradigm.
“It’s actually refreshing to hear someone aiming for depth over trend. I’d love to see how you shape those “alternative phenomenal Universe clumps” feels like you’re onto something that could challenge and expand a reader’s perception. Have you sketched out any characters or threads yet, or is it still in the idea stage?”
It’s just an idea. I like to collect ideas for a few years for prompts when writing that novel in an isolated rush of around the clock timing
I am working on that phenomenal universe- an undefined, borderless existence something like a dream- without any grounding at all, as a concept since the last poem I wrote as a placeholder for the idea. I am trying to find a way to express the concept.
There are several recent ideas about quantum mechanics and cosmology involving the wavefunction and superposition- even retro-causality that may be applied to the paradox of a determined though indeterminate phenomenon of being. It isn’t a usual unified field theoretical approach with a causal order of events leading to ‘it all started because of quantum uncertainty and entanglement in a Higgs Field’ point of view. It is instead something more like asking a question of what God had in mind for making such an enigmatic creation, and how does He do that? I suppose it is like wondering how the magician does his tricks.
““A Discursive Universe” holds such a vast, layered scope. It’s like a philosophical seismograph, capturing both the external movements of a fractured world and the internal searching for meaning in something borderless. The line “played by a kangaroo” is such a striking jolt ,disarming, almost absurdist in the best way. It catches you off guard, just like the times we live in.
You’re not putting too many ideas in …..it’s a universe you’re painting, and universes aren’t tidy. The fusion of environmental critique, metaphysical wonder, and the quiet indictment of human choices feels necessary. It’s dense, yes, but that density carries weight. It’s a poem you sit with ,not one you rush through.
I can see how you’re circling the edges of that “phenomenal universe” idea. You’re already giving it shape, even if it’s still elusive. Have you considered pulling a few of the themes out and expanding them into connected pieces….a series orbiting around the same idea from different angles?”
I suppose that is a process I tend to work in- developing an idea and fusing more into it synthetically as I read or encounter more, new scientific or theological concepts- emergent. Because of my lifestyle I also tend to leave them off as I need work on other things, often of a more mundane nature such as stocking shelves. One can have an intellectual composition equivalent of The Winchester Mansion with stairs leading to nowhere and resuming in some strange locale like a drawing by Malcom Escher.
