Maternal Gravity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V-R3bHxuw8

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It was once believed that objects

fell because they longed to reunite

with Mother Earth. But then when

his bright telescope-amended eyes

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began to re-write principles and give

mathematic birth to truth suggesting it

was otherwise, Galileo would provide

the proof in 1632 that Destiny decreed

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he must devise, inspired by the brave

heretical Copernicus and making way

for Isaac Newton who, in 1687, in full

flower of his genius, as if he had

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received its laws from God, conceived

his vast Principia, whose academic

suavity elaborately would with elegant

precision undermine and redefine

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the inexplicabilities, the premises,

proclivities, as they’d been thought

to be, of gravity. That is, until

Einstein upended it with relativity.

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But still, the old belief that objects

fall because they long to reunite with

Mother Earth supplies to us far better

reason for descent, in fact requites

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the feverish desire for her love we hide

behind a show of calm surmise that

physics springs no less than we do from

maternal turf. A mother is why we arise,

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and why we fall. She is the land, the air,

the surf, the flood, the draught, groaning

quake, lonely squall. Mother said she

was the only explanation for it all.

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