Thursday, February 27, 2025

DE RIGUEUR

We are taught 
to want both 
peace and quiet, 

as if the two 
were mutually inclusive. 

But to what extent 
could the heavens be 
nonviolent 

when the light 
in which all 
consciousness subsists 

was born hence 
by bombs of such 
merciless velocity? 

It may be soundless 
in space, yes—

and weightless too, 
in some sense—but 

the most crucial
expedients
to this very thought 

were loud, hot
explosions 
none the less.