{"id":209314,"date":"2022-04-18T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=209314"},"modified":"2022-04-14T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T04:37:09","slug":"singularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/04\/singularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Stephen Hawking<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity
\nwe once were?<\/p>\n

so compact nobody
\nneeded a bed, or food or money \u2014<\/p>\n

nobody hiding in the school bathroom
\nor home alone<\/p>\n

pulling open the drawer
\nwhere the pills are kept.<\/p>\n

For every atom belonging to me as good<\/em>
\nBelongs to you.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Remember?<\/p>\n

There was no\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nature<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No
\nthem<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No tests<\/p>\n

to determine if the elephant
\ngrieves her calf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or if<\/p>\n

the coral reef feels pain.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Trashed
\noceans don\u2019t speak English\u00a0or Farsi or French;<\/p>\n

would that we could wake up\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to what we were
\n\u2014 when we were<\/em> ocean\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and before that<\/p>\n

to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was
\nliquid and stars were space and space was not<\/p>\n

at all \u2014 nothing<\/p>\n

before we came to believe humans were so important
\nbefore this awful loneliness.<\/p>\n

Can molecules recall it?
\nwhat once was?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0before anything happened?<\/p>\n

No I, no We, no one. No was
\nNo verb\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0no noun
\nonly a tiny tiny dot brimming with<\/p>\n

is is is is is<\/em><\/p>\n

All\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0everything\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0home<\/p>\n

________________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Marie Howe (born 1950) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is<\/em> Magdalene. In August 2012 she was named the State Poet for New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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