{"id":1554,"date":"2011-02-27T00:06:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2024-12-17T23:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T04:32:57","slug":"aitiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2011\/02\/aitiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitiologia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">It is a mystery how all this matters\n light circling light so intently\n a profound weight born of relativity\n changes a negative to a positive\n turns a lighthearted affair substantial\n\nA vast collection of these contingencies\n congregate by some strange attraction\n reaching across the void\n only to crush themselves in their collective action\n into carbon copies, hot air, and other complexities\n shedding continual light in its smashing\n only to collapse under its own manufacturing\n and give itself back to the universe\n to perchance evince a life of its own\n upon the foundation of its ruin\n\nFrom under what strange circumstances\n does the miracle of life spring\nA mere chip off the old spitfire\n collides with a celestial being\n who sets its orbit, gets its pulse beating\n and ritually guides it in its dreaming\n\nAfter phases and phases\n of icing\u2013over and fuming near extinguishing\n from within its nebulous sea\n a chemical compound redounds\n in recreating its structure, preserving its memory\n with tiny changes here and there\n growing larger and more defined\n recomposing its recomposing\n\nAt first, blindly following the light\n a sensitivity beckons focus\n a pair of eyes peer out from the depths\n\nNow on two legs, a monstrous\n stomping over the earth\n kings tyrannously rule\n and a growth of wings\n and a chirp, chirp of birds\n and tender little things\n\nWho begin to talk and repeat\n make tools to pass along\n  and pass along ways to make tools\n and think about things\n\nAnd ages and ages of such talk and figuring\n such that remembering back\n to earlier days seem a dream\n\nAnd with each age some savage desire\n to love and sustain\n yields a development\n from the elements\n of a previous fire\n\nThe world is heavy with inheritance\n buried in the vastness of time and space\nfrom half\u2013conscious fumblings\n cosmic heirlooms accrue\namid the ruins of ancient beings\n arises, painstakingly crafted,\nitty\u2013bitty things\n from itty\u2013bitty things<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a mystery how all this matters light circling light so intently a profound weight born of relativity changes a negative to a positive turns a lighthearted affair substantial A vast collection of these contingencies congregate by some strange attraction reaching across the void only to crush themselves in their collective action into carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-red-with-flowers-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}