Until the Sun Consumes Us

Katie Kenney

Today I tended to time

to those airy billions of years

shook out from eager atoms

to languid clouds and air

to lavish stars from single cells

to the deepest sea in coraled sun

to the sleeping mice in desert rocks

to fur sloughed off in caves of flames

to wars and walls, all stone and strife

to the liquid cheese of the pretzeled mall

from top to tail, all time rolls on.

Boltzmann's entropy formula:
S = k. log W

Katie Kenney studied publishing at University of Denver's Publishing Institute and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. Her poems have appeared in Grub Street Literary Magazine, Moss Puppy Magazine, and Merion West among others. She lives in New England with her cat Mabel.