Issue # 10 August 2011
Bruce W. Niedt
Big Picture

We
live
in a
universe
of growing expanse –
galaxies spread out, race away
from each other – red shift, blue shift, cosmic blossoming,
this diversity of being – black hole, chambered nautilus – spiraling out or in.
Nature's numbers add and subtract, faithful as comets
returning to an entropy
that compacts us, as
we wait for
the next
Big
Bang.