FINITE

The astronomy people think they

have made a new discovery;

seems the universe is expanding

much faster than expected

I know why.

We’re getting old,

And like the poet said,

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;

for now hath time made me his numbering clock;

My thoughts are minutes.”*

I’ve paid attention, I understand

that time and space and gravity are

chained together like slaves at the neck

and between them define the nature

of ordinary men who wander sightless

and speak of ponderous things as though

it is possible to understand an

expanding universe,

much less the life-force

of even this one blade of grass

sticking through the clay on my feet,

or the exquisite little mantis

on the bright butterfly bush by the pond

losing his triangle head in a search

he does not care is universal.

But like us, he sees for just one second

the universe explode

as His last act

but not his least.

*Shakespeare Richard II

Reviews

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn..]

Vol,

Magnificent philosophical thoughts set to pen of page in most splendid manner of all the greats who have ever written, and, namely, William Shakespeare, as I did just note as accurate ... I find that I do enjoy your ponderous thoughts that are more than contemplatively meditative, and filled with a sage's wisdom ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham