Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 7, Number 1. May 2024. ISSN: 2581-7094
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Guy Reed
You’ve been
hiding at the center of the Milky Way
for billions of
years, but now we’ve taken your
composite photo.
Submillimeter radio waves, arrays
across our
globe, and your own accretion flow. We’ve seen your event horizon. How does
that make you feel?
From here, out
on a spiral arm beyond the gas
and dust, you
were only an imaginary thing
for a hundred
years or so. Did you worry when we
gave you a name?
Gravity that can hold light, particle
and wave. Does
that bring you near God?
Perhaps, you
have pride for being known as real,
confirmed
existence makes everybody feel good
until they
become exploited. Maybe you don’t care,
you go about
your business of slowly swallowing
the galaxy in a
trickle of cosmic appetite.
Though not the
first, you are the most important blackhole
ever
photographed, part of the family. Our home
blackhole.
You’ve been there, every event since conception. Consider yourself now invited
to all
the parties, all the funerals, each one of us.
To
Know Inside The Inside
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Guy Reed
I
There
is no equation for the soul
nor
for a poem, as it turns out.
Nothing
human can be completed
with
just measurable knowledge.
Beauty
is created with a deeper
sense
of knowing— subconscious
understanding—
truth beyond logic,
universally
a connection, an opening,
simple,
for everybody,
like
music.
II
A
“unified field theory” should unite
inner
and outer space—
connect
to itself, the other side
of
a black hole, a loop,
the
other side of our electrical brain,
and
further, past emotion,
neutrinos
through our dreams.
A
knowing understood.
The deep, still pond fills
the scoop in the ground.
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Bio:
Guy
Reed is author of Second Innocence (Luchador Press), The Effort To
Hold Light (Finishing Line Press), and co-author, with Cheryl A. Rice, of Until
The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press). He won the 2022 Littoral Press
poetry prize. His poems and essays have been published in journals both online
and in print. Guy has co-directed short films with Katie Cokinos, most
recently, Water Keeps Time. From Minnesota, Guy has lived in California,
Oregon, and now resides in the Catskills Mountains of New York.
<guyedwinreed.com>
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