Another Poem for Albert Einstein: Timely by Mary Orovan

In this 1931 photo, physicist Albert Einstein is shown writing out an equation for the density of the Milky Way. Einstein revolutionized physics, starting with a series of papers in 1905, and became a cultural icon as well.

TIMELY
by Mary Orovan


Let me buy some time, said

     the rich man,

I now buy someone to smooth          

     every minute of what

I have.  But time looms large,                                 

     inexorably forward.

I can crush it, said the witch

     on her sonic broom.

Not fast enough—I'll take you

     there, said light,

if you observe at my speed  

     I can make time

stand still—that's what you folks

     call paradise.

     But I want to zag to the past,

embellish memories, laser on the hill

     of daisies where we first lay;

     zig to tomorrow

a dimension changing everything.

     Heaven is now; breathe &

be—shining with photons, transparent

     as good air    joy
the pure silence of not even ticking.

This poetry selection by Mary Orovan is from her chapbook, Green Rain, published by Poets Wear Prada in 2008.

Green Rain
by Mary Orovan
ISBN 978-0-9817678-5-7
Soft Cover, Perfect Bound, 30 pp.
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