Not moving toward anything. Staying with one thing long enough to see it differently.

The Light That Outlives the Road

Right now, without any sound, galaxies are leaving. Not moving away in the ordinary sense โ€” not flying off through space like debris from a blast. Space itself is expanding, everywhere at once, and at great distances the expansion adds up to more than light can cross. A galaxy far enough away is carried from […]

You Are a Verb the Universe Is Conjugating

A waterfall has a shape. Go back to the same one after a year and you will recognize it โ€” the same white curl where the water folds over the lip, the same standing wave below, the same plume of mist hung in the same place in the air. You could photograph it, name it, […]

The Universe Runs on Forgetting

Pour milk into coffee. The white blooms, curls, slackens, drowns into an even brown. Now run the film backward. The brown unmixes. The milk gathers itself and leaps into the jug. Everyone laughs. No one can say which law was broken. None was. Every single collision in that cup is reversible โ€” run any one […]