Martin Robertson

Now and Then

Holes in Space

Galaxies, galleon-bold adventurers, pass
out through uncharted night,
extending being.  But in their recklessness
stretch to snapping communication-lines
of light,
are lost.  Night wins.

Swirling vastness a lost speck.  In each speck
sparks without number spin,
suns.  One bursts in huge radiance.  The wreck
falls back on itself, contracting back,
down, in,
irreversibly packed

to a still point.  Matter and energy
funnelled through a point of not-
being, are re-formed what? where? to be
keel on what un-isled ocean, spark
in what
other-dimension dark?