Graphene

Graphene

If she desires

then her fingers

can touch

me across any ocean boundary

and leap 

through an empty sky

to the matter

of this distant orbit.

No membrane

can halt

singular energy

from igniting

cascading reactions

to become

the most powerful

force yielded by humans,

able to break bonds

and reform them

into beauty

absent of design.

-Robert L. Jackson III

Giants

Giants

The stars love the burning

and to follow the laws

of waves and particles.

The stars send their light

to other lifetimes,

bending across the universe.

The stars share their fuel,

warming the elements

and the rocks to react.

The reactions create

the strength between us,

the unique matter of souls.

The stars stitch through

smoldering holes

the pitch black blanket

weighting our shoulders.

-Robert L. Jackson III