Reece Burkaauthor

The poetic city: “Snap, Crackle and Pop”

Mar 22, 2021 • Artists, Creative Writing

The visions of space we look to see. (Photo: Wiki Commons)

Snap, Crackle and Pop

Once upon a time

But not so long ago

I thought of Deep Space

As the Big Emptiness

Then I read that even

Deep Space is abuzz

with virtual particles

appearing and disappearing

faster than the blink of an eye…

Leaving me to wonder

if the sound of the energies

of the Universe is really “Om”

as claimed by many a revered

mystic…

Or maybe when we put our ear

to the Great Void out of which

all things manifest,

the sound we’ll hear is the

snap, crackle, pop

of those virtual particles

As they sing and dance

the world into existence

to the tune of Allen Toussaint’s

“Everything I do gonna be funky

from now on.”

Reece Burka

2/6/2021

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