Zero
You would see broken cups
gathering themselves
together and jumping
back onto the table.
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
we rebounded in necessity
for mind and body
around these companions
our wants of our sand
stone by stone
these buildings again
what they represent
extends and separates
the problem into two parts
disorder increases with time
and desire complicates space
· · ·
Bird’s Eye View
10 1
Carl Sagan said, “We go about our daily lives
understanding almost nothing
of the world.”
Commuters are on their ways
amidst the daily corporate parades,
and the mongers of material hurdle
through the Canyon of Heroes.
And then, a whistle
of orbited weaponry,
a new tool invented
a bomb as sound as
wait
Not one can hear
the weaponry
the bolts of understanding nothing
and then nothing and nothing and nothing.
· · ·
Tower
10 2
A sound teems beyond and rings New York Ma Bell’s antennae.
Its echo and clatter accelerates into peals of clouds.
The sound strikes the air at two hundred meters above sea level.
Sound agitates, splits one cell,
dos bricks, and three steel beams.
In two degrees, that is two spatial points
or two slight measures of separation – two blocks
of space – he lives. She dies.
Within these two degrees, the façade, the once upon a time –
two had risen up, twins. Aye Dios Mio, one falls.