Sub-atomic particles

Sub-atomic particles

the atoms they form

molecules, cell organelles

cells, machinery of life

organs, organisms

communities and ecosystems

planets, solar systems, galaxies

galactic clusters and their inverse

black holes the doors to other

universes, a contradiction

in terms.

              For language and its shadow

consciousness must hold matter

the material world snugly inside concepts

theories and hypotheses to be

experimentally verified using vision

and the other senses, collecting data

and interpreting the known facts

accumulated over time.

                                  Can matter

exist without a consciousness to behold it?

Believing in

our mortality (the species)

we have created God

(a supreme being)

probably not carbon-based

to encompass every universe

but is God

inside or outside

consciousness? Can God

tell us what to do

or must we tell God

alone

what to do?

                  Here is ego

projecting personality, exerting force

on community, asserting the existence

and predominance of component DNA.

An already hackneyed theory that DNA

survival drives

procreation, personality, savings bonds

everything but poetry (most poems included).

Mustache, cowboy hat

horse whisperer, gulag master

Odysseus, King Lear

                             salvation in the details.

Yes, these personalities individual and interesting

as opossum, bear

oak and ash

beech nut, pine cone

Grand Canyon sandstone, Green Mountain granite.