The Connectedness of Things

Inspired by A Beautiful Mind

 

On a cool October morning in 1994

a misty-eyed baby girl parted her lips to cry

while in the other room the morning burst into light

and the delirious shuffling of confused feet

creaked through the wooden floorboards.

With forefinger and thumb rubbing nighttime from her eyes,

she felt her way downstairs to ease her wailing baby,

who did not yet understand the intricacies of this world

and balked at the opening of eyes

and the emptiness of rooms.

 

Meanwhile in Princeton, Connecticut,

an iridescent beetle broke free from his amber cage

and gasped to taste the sweet air

and to move his aching limbs

while all around the world shifted into focus –

the fog of amber to be replaced by the clarity of mathematics and human nature.

He suddenly remembered the intricacies of the world

but balked at the opening of eyes

and the emptiness of rooms.

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