Intimate Universes

Inspired by the theory that cosmic branes (of a multiverse) can touch and influence one another

Their “kiss” lasted but one millionth of a second,

though truly timeless and spared of angels; a mere gleam

in the dreaming eye of Pan; the first quiver of life in primordial ooze.

A singularity popped off the tongue of a howling black hole, expanded

where nascent gods tossed rose petals over looping, cosmic currents,

plasma-fire blue shot into the nothingness of our universe—a universe

silent as an ash-covered opera—until the chaos of cooling atoms

induced space-time and spark, lending symphonic gravity

to the tenacity of evolution, to the intangibles of consciousness.

(From the books Wilderness & Love and The Hunchback's Captive and Others)