Slew
Across the universe the only straight
Component is the hasty one, the light
God spoke, that first thing that obeyed the weight
Of his commands. Jehovah found it slight,
Though, boring—or it seems he did because
He never made another item in
The cosmos like it. Nature in its laws
Abhors those lines that make right angles, thin,
Flat, tidinesses. Constellations twirl
Like pinwheels made of oval and of sphere
Of gas or rock. Electrons spin and swirl,
Minute. Between these great extremes is sheer
Bent beauty everywhere. In darker things substantial
It is the curving shape or arc that sings.