Sarah Hector - Poem

  i stepped on an exploding universe today
  tiny worlds crushed beneath my Docs
  i found a young one in my room
  interstellar dust to be swept away

  infinite space in a limited place
  with what wonder did I brush one out of my hair
  yesterday, thinking it a fly
  infinite futures that shall be erased

  with a wave of my hand, gone
  judged unworthy to continue on
  by arbitrary asceticism
  contemptible ignorance of phenomenon

  how tossed away and brushed aside?
  i saw a universe trapped in a tree
  its worlds still circling stilled suns
  by what laws do they abide

  to contain infinity in branches?
  eternity written in the stars
  seared there by cold buring heat
  not in our time, not in our masses