2 poems about presence


Quantum Theory

God
You are around
Visiting nuclei
Somehow
Also gliding with
The quanta
Inside
Colliders

In the air
Presentable
In earth and sea
All the igneous
Layers
Of creation

Riding the rings
And showing where they meet
Between
Well
Galaxies
Connected by comets
As Hermes runners
With
You know
Cosmic messages

We’re still
Trying
To interpret
So that one day
We might message back


Words that Rise

I am alive
So are you
You might be reading on my shoulder
Waiting for the final words
To calculate
And then
More importantly
Go outside to play

Then later on
More words
Inexorable
For you
Inexorable
A readership
A friend
A nemesis
When
Necessary in revision

Or keep it
To yourself
And we’ll discuss
The other things
Inside
Or outside
Should it be
A fall day
Accommodating
Certain kinds
Of ease
Enough
Between us


C L Couch


Photo by NASA on Unsplash 
Jupiter as Seen from the Hubble Space Telescope