<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>God Particles</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I could almost hear their soft collisions <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>on the cold air today, but when I came in,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>shed my layers and stood by the fire,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I felt them float toward me like spores <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>flung far from their source, having crossed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>miles of ocean and fields unmown to most <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>just to keep my body fixed to its place<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>on the earth. Call them <i>God </i>if you must,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>these messengers that bring hard evidence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>of what I once was and where I have been ---<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>filling me with bits of stardust, whaleskin, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>and goosedown from the pillow where Einstein<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>slept, tucked in his cottage in New Jersey,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>dreaming of things I know I’ll never see.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- James Crews</span></p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></body></html>