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Poetry: Stairway from Heaven

January 28, 2023 by Edward Zahniser 2 Comments

Stairway from Heaven

My nephew, now a noted astrophysicist,
toddled down steep, awkward cabin stairs
one extended-family Adirondack vacation,
to ask each of the adults: “Are I baby Jesus?”

Now, perhaps, his cosmic inwardness basks
amidst so-called heavens with an expansive
sense of reality suitably immense enough
to encompass whatever reality may proffer,

knowing that, despite dark matter and deaths
of stars, nothing but nothing that breathes air
is ever alone in this world.

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  1. Edythe Ann Quinn says

    January 28, 2023 at 9:38 AM

    YES !!!! Thank you.

    Reply
  2. Bob Meyer says

    January 29, 2023 at 4:00 PM

    “…nothing but nothing that breathes air
    is ever alone in this world.”
    Beautiful Ed & true.
    But yet we are also ultimately all alone.
    Peace.

    Reply

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