Entering the 4th dimension

Hello 4D!

Celestial Juggler

a hypothesis

Space was liquid

the moon was molten

the magma from our ring of fire

oozed a droplet and centrifugal force threw it

the earth's magnetic gravity held it in it's atmosphere

the moon hardened on the move

rounding as circles or ellipticals rotate forever it seems

but, slowly, not the moon

it only shows the earth one face now

in friction with the shores of it's old cradle

Stellar Nursery Rhyme

Insulation
Sometimes we need
Insulation
To quiet down
The insolent noise
To comfort from
The negativity
I need insulation
How do I make insulation?
Is it immaterial or material?
Immaterial insulation
Would be harder to create
Takes clearing out the cobwebs
Figuring out how to relax
Before mental weaving begins
Material insulation is easy
With the exception of
Filaments of fiberglass
Stuck in the skin
Maybe metaphoric insulation
A warm blanket of lullabies
Of closed eye crescent blue moons with smiling mouths
Of tiny white undershirts adorned with baby yellow flowers
Of cornsilk hair sliding through your fingers
Of soft cheeked toddlers in ancient photographs
Of black and white wallpaper with olde tyme advertisements
Of sweet scent of rich decay from jumping in crisp leaf piles
Of red and green and orange and brown and yellow
The swirl of color in my memory
Surrounding me
Holding me
Relaxing me
Pacifying me
Keeping me
Sane
Moonglow and stellar nursery
Wrapped around me
This is my insulation

Heart Rest

The day of the full moon, when the moon is neither increasing nor decreasing, the Babylonians called Sa-bat, meaning "heart-rest." It was believed that on this day, the woman in the moon, Ishtar, as the moon goddess was known in Babylon, as in virtually every ancient and primitive society, there had been since the earliest of times a taboo against a woman working, preparing food, or traveling when she was passing her monthly blood. On Sa-bat, from which comes our Sabbath, men as well as women were commanded to rest, for when the moon menstruated, the taboo was on everyone. Originally (and naturally) observed once a month, the Sabbath was later to be incorporated by the Christians into their Creation myth and made conveniently weekly. So nowadays hard-minded men with hard muscles and hard hats are relieved from their jobs on Sundays because of an archetypal psychological response to menstruation.

From the book, Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Lake of Mystery

sun grandfather

moon grandmother

continent father

ocean mother

toe first

into the lake of mystery

black silouette

fire in her palms

little one carries the fire

into the darkness

to the center

of the lake of mystery

no one knows

a vacation from one self

trip of misery

to bring out the size of me

it's all complete

not complete

good to know

in the lake of mystery

where darkness grows

no one knows

it's all a state of surgery

serging in me

it's all whole

not whole

good to know

in the lake of mystery

where darkness flows

in symmetry

confounding me

encircling

a circle of me

it's not complete

good to know

i live in the

the lake of mystery

Tidal Friction

from, The Sea Around Us by Rachel L. Carson:

In the days when the earth was young, the coming in of the tide must have been a stupendous event. If the moon was...formed by the tearing away of a part of the outer crust of the earth, it must have remained for a time very close to its parent. Its present position is the consequence of being pushed farther and farther away from the earth for some 2 billion years.

...[O]ver the millions of years the moon has receded, driven away by the friction of the tide it creates. ...[F]or tidal friction is gradually slowing down the rotation of the earth. In those early days..., it took the earth a much shorter time--perhaps only about 4 hours--to make a complete rotation on its axis. Since then, the spinning of the globe has been so greatly slowed that a rotation now requires, as everyone knows, about 24 hours.

...And all the while the tidal friction will be exerting a second effect, pushing the moon farther away... (According to the laws of mechanics, as the rotation of the earth is retarded, that of the moon must be accelerated, and centrifugal force will carry it farther away.) As the moon recedes, it will, of course, have less power over the tides and they will grow weaker. It will also take the moon longer to complete its orbit around the earth.

...Our day is believed to be several seconds longer than that of Babylonian times. Britain's Astronomer Royal recently called the attention of the American Philosophical Society to the fact that the world will soon have to choose between two kinds of time. (1950)