Expanding Horizons

1.
I remember
      as a child
standing
      on a pebble shore
watching ships
      at sea
sailing
      uncaring
over
      the edge
            of the world.

I see
      moon
sphere
      of old age
visitor
      in ancient days
            and now
instrument
      of early myth

and sun
      mother of life
            father of destruction
whose bloated death
      one day
will burn
      this iron
            Earth
                  away.

2.
Look up
on open nights
see the cities
the suns

see the stars
the wild havens
the countable finities

mark
      the horizon of light
mark
      that ten
            billion
                  years.

3.
Mark this universe
this space-time bubble
in the multiverse.

You remember
blowing bubbles
as a child?

4.
All histories
all possible
all happened.

5.
All
that can be known
to all there is

is like
an ounce of decency
to God.

6.
Expanding horizons
eternal
Russian dolls.

Hear