Poems of the Week

Ticktock

by Dan Campion

“‘Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping’: Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a ‘mini-universe’ in his lab”
LiveScience

The brain, wrote Dickinson, is wide,
Viz. “wider than the sky”:
A “mini-universe” inside
Which cosmic rules apply.
. . .
Now spacetime’s rules hard science plumbs
Beyond our craniums,
Which shows reality succumbs
To dial-twiddling thumbs.