Shining threads

Shining threads

Sunday 3 April 2011

Waves of circumstance

Einstein relaxes on the beach, 
chatting with Marilyn Monroe.

The icons of their faces 
lit by the radiance of the sun.

Einstein pulls a bunch of flowers 
out of his hat 
and offers them to Marilyn.

She accepts, smiling and faintly blushing.

He rides the waves of circumstance 
and they retire to his beach hut,
where science and film history 
meet and make music 
to fill the limitless sky.

New equations are dreamt up that night, 
but Einstein lets them 
flit in and out of his consciousness,
without trying to capture them on paper. 

Solving the mysteries of the universe 
play second fiddle to 
what he is enjoying at hand.

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