Scientism PoetrySCIENCE · LANGUAGE · IMAGINATION
I live freely, basking in sunlight’s glow, Chasing and playing, where joys overflow. I leap to the desk, ink spills like streams, Stride on the piano; a grand chord gleams. I graze the stars as a girl softly waits, Venus ascends, bound by celestial gates. Sunlight stirs life, a season’s grand bloom, A blaze within dispels spring’s gloom. The neighbor’s beauty, panda-eyed and rare, Nestles in warmth beneath rooftops’ care. Newton proclaims space, steady and slow, Life feels sweet; I’d wish for centuries to grow. Beyond the fence, dark cypresses loom, Cold stone tablets guard a silent gloom. Bones below whisper of deeds once done, Where nobles and commoners rest as one. A squirrel free-falls into death’s embrace, A pine cone tumbles through quiet space. Schrödinger traps me in the box’s gloom, My pupils flicker, green lights softly bloom. The Geiger ticks as radium wanes, Poison waits; its ancient tale remains. Bohr rolls dice; the cosmos obeys, Einstein protests as reason frays. Both alive and dead, in paradox I stray, The secret collapses as the wave gives way. Human will commands the grand domain, Yet classical thought falters, its grasp in vain. “Curiosity killed the cat”— but is it true? Perhaps I still linger, in quantum’s shadowed view.

From the revised manuscript of An Introduction to Scientism Poetry. Original line and stanza breaks retained.

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