Classic Poem

Into the void beyond law
and beyond expectation we
have arced but not fallen — like
a mathematical leap, an " E

=MC 2 " as
it was first written. I
stand in terror and awe
often in this place: Sky

below and above, a boundaryless
blackboard fretted with in-
accessible and random points
that glitter but illumine

only themselves. We hold
each other here, like the two
sides of an equation — for
if one fails the other fails too —

or two wings, shuddering between
a fall like Lucifer's
and a new and hitherto
unimaginable universe.