The Comoving Distance of the Peach in Cosmological Equations

from Miracle Strip by Matt Layne

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The Comoving Distance of the Peach in Cosmological Equations

Circling down in a tightening gyre,
the crow charts its course
to the silver orchard,
pencil trees
in perfect parallels
until the horizon, where,
anarchy! Lines meet, centers fold,
Euclid rolls gravely and wads
the chaos of glooming arithmetic
into a confused ball. Look
to the farmer. Her twilight fingers plot
a new geometry as they trace
across the paperbark.
Here, soil is x and fruit is y,
and we solve for no endpoint but infinity.
Beneath each callus lies the spiral formula of creation.
Beneath the bark, spiritus mundi pumps sap heavenward
to where peach blossoms unfurl luscious truths,
and there, my firm friend, past the pluck,
past the fuzz, flesh, nectar, and pleasure,
turning and turning, beyond the world’s
widening eye, is the grooved pit of it all,
intricate as your brilliant brain.
The stony core of its center
holds the key. Press
it to your ear
and hear it
lover-whisper,
be sweet.
Be sweet.

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from Miracle Strip, released August 31, 2022

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Matt Layne Birmingham, Alabama

Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet's nests and looking under rocks since he was knee-high to a peanut peg.
I reckon you oughta check him out.