Long Before the Galaxies Began to Surge*

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Though physics knows what water is and we

Think, yes, we know, and Buddha thought he found

Enlightenment as serendipity

In lotus petals set above the ground

Aswamp with water, and though women know

Of men and know the things that they can’t think;

Though branches up above black water’s flow

Presume to ponder, deep, like Shakespeare’s ink;

Though bridges feel the water at their feet;

Though water’s blackness swirls right past their steel

And stone; though stallions whinny self-deceit

Before they rear up from the black they feel:

We guess at only, shallowly, the whole

Of oceans, rivers, shoals and streams, their soul.

*According to current physics, water may have first come into existence 100 to 200 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery challenges the long-held assumption that water originated from the outer Solar System. Instead, it suggests that water could have formed in the early Universe through the processes of supernova explosions, which released oxygen and hydrogen into space. These early water-rich regions likely seeded the formation of planets at cosmic dawn, long before the first galaxies took shape. 

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