Dark Matter
It is the dismembered and flung body of God
and the dark energy but the scattered aura
of God's dismemberment.
The darkness isn't evil but invisible
in the otherwise excellent light of day
as it pulls and pushes the cosmos this way and that
though flung and dismembered and dead
to the sound of prayers, the sight of searchers,
and the touch of fingers on the beads of rosaries.
and the dark energy but the scattered aura
of God's dismemberment.
The darkness isn't evil but invisible
in the otherwise excellent light of day
as it pulls and pushes the cosmos this way and that
though flung and dismembered and dead
to the sound of prayers, the sight of searchers,
and the touch of fingers on the beads of rosaries.
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Cosmotheology
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"The darkness isn't evil but invisible "
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Thank you, Amanda.
*, Gary.
The line Amanda quoted. Wisdom. *
Thank you, David.
Thank you, John.
Especially like the closing stanza of this piece. *
For me the gutsy opening stanza but really the whole piece.
You and Conrad would've made good drinking buddies. Not exactly fun, per se, but profoundly fascinating. *
Thank you, Sam.
Thank you, Paul.
Thank you, Matt.
I like this one but am confused by the use of "but" in first stanza. What's the contrast? Do you mean "It ISN'T the dismembered and flung body of God / and the dark energy but the scattered aura / of God's dismemberment"?
I really like the parallelism of "the sound," "the sight," and "the touch" in the closing lines.
The "but" hung me up a moment, too, Bill. More than a moment, in fact.
I don't hear/see the confusion, Bill and Matt.
Thank you, Bill,
and Matt, for your second comment.
That "but" in the first stanza is either genius or confusion. I don't know which. *