“End of History,” 3/15 from 21st Century Retablo. 11.7″ x 16,” mixed-media on archival paper, 2005-06. Permanent collection, USC Fisher Museum of Art.

POEM: the end of history

“there are multiple factors of uncertainty”
echoes through the infinite
extension of the region where all matter exists
found tangled, violations gather
where hope outlasts us

we are constructed of relics

remember the shifting
meaning of thunderstorms?
recuperation,
the last phenomenon left in the covered city

to test the theory,
trenches are dug into the ground

the result of two massive stars,
two spiraling black holes colliding     the destructive
power of gravitational waves
means the fall of one
      pulls the other
down alongside us     reverberations are felt
on the surface of our outgrowing nails

we had faith
in imaginary numbers, the hidden truth
behind negative power