Poem Left Incompleted

Atoms smashed in Switzerland
Get smashed by the energy
Loosed by atoms split in France,

And the European spring
Advances roughly a month
Over seventy-five years

Or so since the first fission
Device was detonated.
So there’s that. Are you smarter

Or dumber, better or worse
Off after your one lifetime
Of exploratory splits

And collisions? Any one
Of you only lives your life,
But the gang’s up to something—

Maybe the sun is spawning
Baby stars on planet Earth.
Maybe it’s the beginning

Of something other than life
That knows itself as it grows.
Write our coda, so we know.