A Review of Terry GIlliam's "The Zero Theorem" - Page 4

ICYMI, Part XIV

by Frankie Metro featuring Dale Winslow

Satellites and Brigadoon
by Dale Winslow

I saw someone who looked like you—
they were taking down the moon 
and consigning it to their mouth.
 
And what would that accomplish—
consuming the satellite of tides, 
dismissing the breath of the world?
 
If I were to say to you that in the stillness
breathing is never there, 
would you deign to investigate?
Would you so trust my words 
that you would act to check on inaction?
 
Our implicit existence heaves itself 
into the spaces between electron and nucleus—
the places where everything and nothing 
live forever yet never come to be.
 
Independent of history, future, 
and the moment whispered as now, 
actuality is holding itself benevolently—
as the brain of humanity holds its namesake.
 
 

 

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Frankie Metro

Frankie Metro is the Chief Rock 'n' Rolla at Unlikely Stories Six. Learn more at his editor's page.

Dale Winslow

Dale Winslow lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. She is a writer, editor, publisher (NeoPoiesis Press), and photographer. She has also explored life as a wildlife and fisheries biologist, teacher, and interpretive naturalist. She is the author of Tinderbox and Seeing The Experiment Changes It All. You will most often find her walking the ocean shore, collecting beach glass and stones, while drinking coffee and talking to the crows.