<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Singularity</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <i>(after Stephen Hawking)</i></div><div><br></div><div>Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity</div><div>we once were?</div><div><br></div><div>so compact nobody</div><div>needed a bed, or food or money —</div><div><br></div><div>nobody hiding in the school bathroom</div><div>or home alone</div><div><br></div><div>pulling open the drawer</div><div>where the pills are kept.</div><div><br></div><div>For every atom belonging to me as good</div><div>Belongs to you. Remember?</div><div><br></div><div>There was no Nature. No</div><div> them. No tests</div><div><br></div><div>to determine if the elephant</div><div>grieves her calf or if</div><div><br></div><div>the coral reef feels pain. Trashed</div><div>oceans don’t speak English or Farsi or French;</div><div><br></div><div>would that we could wake up to what we were</div><div>— when we were ocean and before that</div><div><br></div><div>to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was</div><div>liquid and stars were space and space was not</div><div><br></div><div>at all — nothing</div><div><br></div><div>before we came to believe humans were so important</div><div>before this awful loneliness.</div><div><br></div><div>Can molecules recall it?</div><div>what once was? before anything happened?</div><div><br></div><div>No I, no We, no one. No was</div><div>No verb no noun</div><div>only a tiny tiny dot brimming with</div><div><br></div><div>is is is is is</div><div><br></div><div>All everything home</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Marie Howe</div></div></body></html>