Not With a Bang
There was not even nothing
before there was anything,
then everything entered
all at once, a great chord,
all of the notes and all of
the almost-notes between – yes,
all at once.
………… So the universe
began not with percussion,
but the whole orchestra
tuning in a marvelous
cacophony before the show.
Then Maestro Space-Time
entered, opened the score
of Whatever-Will-Be
and raised his baton.
by Nils Peterson
from All the Marvelous Stuff
Poetry Center San José, 2019