ALSO THE SUN

    ALSO THE SUN

Roused by light rain ,

rose and beheld

against horizon gray

a red ball of fire:

the sun also rises. 

Oh Papa Hemingway,

you were so right

and yet so wrong

since it’s we that genuflect,

somersault like a circus seal,

a thousand miles an hour,

and yet the sun does move

and we with it ,

500 times as fast

in orbit of the galaxy.

Of  course, we must take

someone else’s word for all of this:

in the beginning was the Word,

except there never was a beginning

since was was always is.

And what we know

stacked against what we don’t know

is an iota in the Sea of  Eternity,

       January 10, 2009