Tributo a Stephen Hawking: "Singularity" de Marie Howe

Do you

sometimes want to wake-up to singularity
we once were?

so compact nobody
needed a bed, or food money -

nobody hiding in the school bathroom
or home alone

pulling open the drawer
where de pills are kept.

For every atom belonging to me as good
Belongs to you. Remember?
There was no Nature. No
them. No tests
to determine if the elephant
grieves her calf    or if

the coral reef feels pain.   Trashed
oceans don't speak English, Farsi or French;

would that we could wake up    to what we were
- when we were ocean       and before that
to when sky was earth, and animal were energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not

at all - nothing

before we came to believe humans were so important
before this awful loneliness.

can molecules recall it?
what once was?     before anything happened?

No I, no WE, no one. No was
no verb    no noun
only a tiny, tiny dot brimming with

is is is is is

All   everything   home.

                            Marie Howe