God of the gaps

NASA telescope detects ‘bonanza’ of humungous black holes

The Christian Science Monitor, 29 August 2012

Science reveals the deep fish of mind,

catches synapses thinking thoughts

to which the thinker is blind,

lays claim to the magical night sky,

bottles it, labels its bright outer skin

the afterbirth of all within.

And just when the world was becoming

so like a clock set running

by a maker with better things to do

than watch its slow wind down,

we found out even God can only guess

what happens next, perhaps

placing his bets with the rest of us,

sometimes black, sometimes red,

too busy to fill in the gaps that he left.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet