Saturday, 5:11 p.m. July 1st, 2017: A Meditation.

This is a written meditation: a reflection on a particular moment, stoking gratitude for the universe and the way it ebbs and flows, for the way we are all a part of something incomprehensibly beautiful. For our cells’ tiny collaborations. For the way that our bodies remember how to make other bodies. For how the cosmos structures everything according to rules of physics, from a single molecule made of vibrating strings of light to galaxies like strings of Christmas lights hung invisibly in the sky.

rattle and flicker,
electric hum.

close
your eyes. you are
growth. you are
a pattern the universe

remembers, its physics
a muscle memory.

think
of the space
between molecules.

you are a tiny orbit,
vibrations. think seashell,
think crystal.

think embryo
and nucleus.

your body radiates
invisible light. pulse

and static. open
your lungs. this wave
unfolds you again

and again.
~

 
Author: Emily Knott
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