Lay for the Day
14th
March
Albert Einstein was born on this day in 1879 in Ulm, Germany.
Unseen
Light
Beyond
a sphere of mist
and crystals,
of milling weather
green
things have exhaled
for
us, huddled together,
we conceive of space, discounting a grist
of dust,
as emptiness unassailed.
Yet
from their seething springs,
all ways
and at a single pace,
the
unseen rays race
out
and cross without a trace,
unstrayed and unslowing unless they fly
where
the wavelengths interlock as things
or
in at the tomb of our eyes
to die,
becoming there the light we recognise.
John Gibbens
from Makings ’89–’91
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