The Invisible World

A little bit of mass is worth an awful lot of energy. For example,

one gram of matter, converted into electricity, could power an entire

city for several days.

Paul Davies

This might explain ghosts, or ESP: the stuff of us is worth more

in the invisible world, as a source of fuel. It surely explains

why the universe is a field of here-then-not-here laws

and nano-warp and slant, half-state existences that's larger

than all of its solids combined; and why our moods

are a turbulent current the body can rarely swim against.

Even in sleep, the bonds in the brain are fire the size

of a galaxy's suns. Even in death, the brain is not a stone:

it hums in the earth, it does its ceaseless isometrics in the bellies

of dismantler-beetles. A stone is not a stone: it's the moon;

or at least it's a moon-equivalency, in its subatomic potential.

And the moon? -is seducing the ocean into cresting higher,

out of itself. And the land?-it could explode from the ocean's

teasing it, for night after night, with the foam hem of her

flamenco dress.