evolution
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Precursors
In a dark cave, in the shadow of Rome piled up beneath stalactites are remains of ancient proto-humans. You could hold their skulls up to the light and see through the bite holes down through to the brainpan, and run your fingers across their over-sized brows which hang over the eyes like little hills bordering…
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R.E.M.
I had that dream where I was falling the one ubiquitous in us all, that brief REM engagement where we can remember holding onto the branches of ancestral trees – and letting go, embracing our subconscious flexing metaphor for our genetic fractalization. Even when the Australopithecus first walked upright, she remembered too. Remembered the small…
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A Poetry Reading 2
This is a recording of me reading my poem, “Australopithecus: an Evolutionary Link.” This is one of my favorite works.
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Australopithecus
My wife and I visited with this little creature when she came to Seattle in 2009. Our kinship extends across time and space, where the exploding supernovas of billions of years ago provided the raw materials to allow our creation. Evolution gives us insight into what we are and how we came to be. It…
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Lives of the Red Suns: Coda
Through the void, in silence radio light streams in defiance, to the lack of listeners nearby. In and out of hydrogen clouds losing bits of the data shroud, the answers the Big Ones searched finally coming to receivers perched. Bowls caved, the structures compromised their metal frames heavily oxidized. Around them lie the cities…
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Lives of the Red Suns V
The Big Ones found a way to create tiny suns of their own, pocketing fusion into buildings all along the coast, pumping excess heat into the seas. Celebrations abounding over the endless energy allowing them to create a new world. They harvested protein from vats, they built enormous radio antennae to see the universe in…
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Lives of the Red Suns IV
The Big Ones spoke about the things they had learned and understood, about how the Red Sun was a massive ball of hydrogen, how its heat and light drove the currents in the sea and stirred the clouds in the sky. They learned about and named the elements and broke them down into atoms and…
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Lives of the Red Suns III
“What care the creatures under the Red Sun for the unknowns out there?” -the aged philosopher Until there were some that asked questions of the sand on the sea shore, or observed the stretched membranes of flying beasts- Who ground transparent glass and saw far over the seas the trading rafts bringing in their…
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Lives of the Red Suns II
Self-awareness under the red sky at dawn. Amongst themselves they are the dominant form of life here. How would any other being come close to their intelligence, their beauty and cunning nature? The sky gave birth to these philosophers and artists, these writers and builders. Only them, around the Red Sun, in this unchanging universe.…
The Numinous Cosmos 