Alan Harris reading
Big Smile
by Alan Harris
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Big Bang is a fashion of imposter proportions, insultingly pat. If true, where did it happen and where were all the other wheres where it didn't happen? Simple theory, it is, suspiciously reminiscent of how each body of us is a big bang out of our mother. Presto. Pat. Four questions: Is all that exists and all that insists atomic? What universe did our universe outbang from? Was there love pre-bang? Was there wine at a quarter till time? Observers delight to tinker with hunks big and tiny, but couldn't folks ask if a grand benevolence flowing beneath and between all hunkness smiled atoms into every allness, big bang or no? Could that Big Smile be lightlessly glowing through all times of time as ungenesised Watcher, bemused by flashchanging its cosmic clothing behind screens of stars? The Big Bang's surmise makes a neat stitch in time, but the Big Smile feels more like eternity. |
From the book Just Below Now (2000)
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