Cosmos: A Poem

Contents

CONTENTS Reading the Science News 1 A Premonition 2 Night Writing 3 The Guests 5 Platonic Astronomy 6 Cooper’s Hawk 7 Two in October Light 9 Practice Bombing 10 The Sea Connection 11 A Cemetery in Normandy 12 In the Gardens beside a Library 14 Anthropic Cosmological Principle 15 Hemlock Hill 17 Learning the Directions 19 Unpublished Interview 23 Repairing the Farmhouse 25 The Home Place 27 Reforested Land 29 A Hotel Tower above Oahu 30 The Late April Garden 31 Conversation in Faculty Commons 33 First Light 50 The Shadowed Counterpane 51 Imagining Origin 52 Time in the First Village 56 Membrane Theory 58 Quest for Beginning 59 First Star 60 Coming Home in the Dark 62 The Language of Space and Time 64 Driving from Columbia 66 This page intentionally left blank COSMOS This page intentionally left blank ...