Rayme 1, mixed media on canvas (to be included in my upcoming show at the Brooklyn Workshop Gallery)
Quick Black Hole Spin Change
I don’t like it—
two massive Black Holes
each twirling at the core of
two merging galaxies
get close enough
to fuse together
then quick as a wink
just as they are melting into a New Black Hole Blob
they undergo something called a “spin-flip”
they change the axes of their spins
and the fused-together Black Hole Blob
gets its own
quick as a cricket’s foot
Don’t like it at all
And then the new Black Hole Blob sometimes
bounces back and forth inside
its mergèd Galaxy
till it settles at the center
but sometimes a “newly” up-sized Black Hole
leaves its Galaxy
to sail out munchingly on its own
into the Universal It
I don’t like it
Nothing about it
in the Bhagavad Gita
the Book of Revelation
Shakespeare, Sappho, or Allen Ginsberg
–Edward Sanders
Oh the value of a network of strong ties…it plays out in your life in so many ways. Here’s a thank you to my good friend Sally (her new blog, Butter and Lightning, is terrific BTW) for uncovering this gem.
I don’t like it either.
Actually I love it, and I’m glad you do too. Plus, you pulled out the BEST headline, and I love the way the piece from your upcoming show dialogs with the poem.
I echo what Sally says. The painting and poem are paired beautifully. Wish I could get up to see your show or better, see your work in a show here.