Looking back through the journal...

I found some lines I wrote

in 1992

BIG BANG

The newspaper came today bearing news

about the oldest structures in the universe,

the word universe isn’t capitalized

but Live Oak, California, population twenty-seven hundred, is…

anyway, these immense whispy clouds rippling across time and space,fifty-nine billion trillion miles, give or take a few trillion,

are leftovers from the beginning of time

which is thought to have been fifteen billion years ago

when, as the writers of the news article

in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-two

said something went BANG in the universe,

not little bang but big BANG,

out of what or because of what they didn’t say

because all they really know for sure

is that we are here on this green world of life and death

looking out among the galaxies and stars

amazed.