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...in Kashmir the Falcon Reservoir is drying up

a universe born in a fiery blast

14 billion years ago,

is geometrically “flat”

over the

largest cosmic scales

& dominated by a mysterious

dark

matter

& by an even more

mysterious

dark

energy

now push the cosmos apart

and wait –if you have time – witness

a thousand days & night,

like they say & signal a gesture

brandish the aching sword toward you o my enemy!
cut thru a blanket of stars

implicit in the sequence of streets (love them!) below


primordial gases of the early universe
might have been laced
with tiny temper variations

temperate tantrums

a result of acoustic waves
in a rapidly expanding fireball

rings like a bell
with a key note

and

overtones