Negentropy
Reverse entropy, things becoming more orderly
The solar system’s birth is one example,
and Life, given Time. From Forever’s
viewpoint, there’s no such thing. No cake
regressed to flour, sugar, shortening;
no dropped yolk, white, and shell uplifted
in air’s paternoster, to reconvene the egg.
In other words, it’s all downhill from what-
ever, or who. You and I? Can you and I
liquid-paper over words we didn’t stop
short of slurring, on black ice, into sneers?
I take it back we say of what we can’t,
and now we know why: that cat alive
if we don’t look, dead if we do. Is light
more like the waves sloshing ashore, or
the shore itself, all seven quintillion grains,
give or take? I would rekindle every flame
I’ve snuffed, given the chance we don’t get.