Wednesday, November 23, 2016

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


Tuesday, November 15, 2016

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