A Perfect Stillness

There is a perfect
stillness to these stories. 

The first instance of a 
gravitational wave. 

Anyways, is there an
event that has a bigger 
explosion of gravitational
waves than two black holes
colliding?

Can three or more black holes
collide at once? 

Would that be the sound of God,
a ripple in Time – a wave of gravity
that only humans can hear?

The sound of God is a window.
Born still in the windowsill, traveling,
still. Still seen by human instruments.

George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, the Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Havana Times, the South China Morning Post, the Buffalo News, and more. 

See all his poems on Tea House here.

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