Santa Fe Poetry Broadside
Premiere Issue (Issue #1), June, 1998 : -- -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6  7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12
Return -- Previous -- Next

Stella Reed

Space = Love

       
            Space = Love, Einstein thought
            Remembering his feet, his garden
            The orbiting planets.

A breath like summer, like eternity
Rises from somewhere
And finds the earth still remains in our bodies
The remains of earth still lean toward the sun
With a love called gravity,
With a song spun between the burning, falling stars.

            Energy matters, thought Einstein
            Remembering his footsteps, the worms turning in his garden,
            The glowing gas of nebulae.

Stand next to me.
Hold your hand out, palm up.
See how mine gravitates toward yours,
Seeking warmth with an awareness of each atom
Seeking to make the space between us small
And the mystery grow wider.

Copyright © 1998 Stella Reed.

About the poet.

Return -- Previous -- Next
Premiere Issue (Issue #1), June, 1998 :
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.