Today's poem is by Yehoshua November

The Infinitely Tall Rabbi Lectures on Re-creation Ex Nihilo Via Divine Speech
       

It's the Principle of the Cosmic Hardware Store:
The floor will hold not because of sound construction

but because, each moment, the floorboards are re-spoken
into existence. Indeed, the Law of Conservation of Matter

would disappear from every textbook
were it not announced again and again

over Heaven's staticky intercom system.
One must train oneself, therefore,

to call the world's bluff, train oneself,
upon boarding a plane, for example,

to believe it is safe not because of the pilot's
credentials, the ground crew's inspection, the expert

wiring of the control panel. The titanium alloy,
the screws fastening the fuselage,

the snow, the fog, the otherness
of the passenger in the window seat,

their nose ring and neo gothic novel—
all continuously articulated

out of nothingness
and into being

like the cup of seltzer with a wedge of lime
the flight attendant's hand

extends toward you
through the cabin air—

                                the mystery

                                                of creation.

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Copyright © 2024 Yehoshua November All rights reserved
from Best Spiritual Literature: Vol. 8, 2023
Orison Books
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission