From Pluriverse
Translated by John Lyons
The
puddle in the street is very dirty
but
in the puddle there is a clean sky
and
in the sky an auraucaria.
"Beauty is not accidental in
nature".
Beauty
is functional, and its function is beauty.
Beauty
is functional, it is to be seen.
The
beautiful parts of feathers are the visibles parts
not
the hidden parts.
Tigers
are
beautiful on the outside.
The
viscerae are monotonous.
The heron
brings songs, say the Bora.
It
inspires songs and praises.
The
air was also for the trill and flight of birds.
The
beauty of animals in the face of which
Darwin's
hypothesis of sexual selection
they
say, is insufficient.
"Were nature not beautiful . . .
" (Poincaré)
The Kosmos Kosmetico (beautiful) according
to Justinian.
And
we are created to be satisfied according to Justinian.
St
Justinian.
Although
now the unjust oppress us.
"If God were with you, Justinian,
the unjust would not oppress you".
Kosmetico,
despite neoliberalism.
Which
is why Heisenberg has said
that
the universe is composed not of matter or energy
but
of music.
…
How
many times from the sand have we gazed at the horizon.
But
the cosmos has a horizon ever closer.
The
transcendence is ever closer.
"Is
there much distance between man and Heaven?"
they
asked in the Ming dynasty.
The
extremities come together and the infinitely far
is
infinitely close.
Evolution
and transcendence: there's no difference.
An earth
which aspires to join with heaven.
And
a God not only of ontological functions
and
not involved in any revolution.
The
universe an as yet unfinished process
and
we an interval in that process.
We are like someone who travels in a
train.
We see everything we pass
but don't know what's coming.
So in curved space-time
turning round and round the sun
but each revolution in a new year.
To
see further ahead, further back in the past.
How
was order born from chaotic Big Bang?
…
On
this still hot planet.
And
fire within. If not, take a peek into the Masaya volcano.
And
its centre hotter than the surface of the sun.
The
evolution of a star till it becomes a girl.
Entropy
is anti-evolution.
And
when all's said it doesn't exist.
New
Man and New Woman is a biological event.
Bodies
of elemental particles and fields of energy
and
souls that don’t exist alone but only as something bigger.
All
matter is united according to Bohm.
So
won't souls be even more so?
Spiritual
body and bodily spirit.
The
boy and girl on a corner,
outside
the pharmacy, and amid the taxi horns
he
asked: "What's your name?"
In
Madrid, under the neon of the Mary
pharmacy:
"What's your name?"
In every
meeting of two the universe is united.
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