With a Cat Lying On My Lap

with a cat lying on my lap a sough whispers in the trees as a summer day begins fading the tiger lilies below bend as if trumpeting a musical for ears yet to come into existence evaporating the din of civilization beyond the universe is collapsing rapidly onto the balcony where Einstein and i lay oblivious, barely conscious while a susurrus flutters about an emerging lambent dream beneath transience speaks well of eons of genetic honing irises in a regal stance amidst other ephemeral existences purple to lavender to a magical touch of yellow within nature never leaves a flower undone nature never leaves us alone at every turn, we discover yet another miracle another faucet where life defies entropy they tell me of other universes parallel worlds where Einstein and i are enemies yet another where we are merely passing paths while here a house finch alights upon a feeder producing decoherence, reinforcing the natural superposition of states this supine recline, singularity producing moments tender and real Einstein slowly glances up knows these visitors well the feline within is at peace with the hummingbirds too there is a natural trust here among us knowing harm is never on this balcony no amount of reality could change this somewhere they say Shroedinger's Cat lies in some box some seventy years i believe with a fully armed pistol and no one knows if it is still alive or has perished in some photon fate what a horrible thought as i lay my hand upon Einstein rubbing him slightly behind the ears he purrs black as midnight, eyes piercing yellow he is an exquisite product of time and evolution nature has done its job well nature never waivers in its quest for beauty we prefer our life here in this universe a many-faceted dimension shared between so many branes of life that collide, separate, rejoin in a pas de panmolecular the perfect synchronization of matter energy, time, and space the world is where it should be drifting off to arriving wings with a cat on my lap while taking a nap as a gentle breeze glides me yet deeper perhaps my keys are escaping into another universe i can exist with such a fate nature having equipped me well nature is generous in her well-worn paths intelligence against those sudden opening dimensions a spare set whose existence can never change where not even a parallel universe of jumping demons can steal them away or the love and closeness i share with Einstein and when all this is done a paseo to a newborn sun where we will continue until matter matters no more love is a precious banquet savor each morsel every crumb and moment love has to give no matter how the future chooses to arrange itself some aspects to the universe will always elude us before we have been delegated to extinction i believe there is a reason in that mystery which can never be scrutinized by scientific measuring nor some feeble multiverse theory to rob Creation of its first breath we have now it is all i ever needed or wanted this delicious moment with a cat lying on my lap San Diego 2/06