Above: Watching Time Come Alive, 24" diameter,
oil paint with copper and aluminum gilding on panel. $5,000.
Spring has come rushing down the hill - is it gravity urging her to greater and greater speeds?
Carlo Roveli has explored the relationship between time and gravity - he wonders what makes time. Why is it that we are encased in this forward moving enigma? According to Roveli, heat is at the base of the creation of time. As heat dissipates, it creates a flow of time.
Many people have noticed how quickly the days are passing. Perhaps it is an awakening of time itself - time coming alive to its own conscious presence in the Universe.
The Saints of April
by Todd Davis
Coltsfoot gives way to dandelion,
plum to apple blossom. Cherry fills
our woods, white petals melting
like the last late snow. Dogwood's
stigmata shine with the blood
of this season. How holy
forsythia and redbud are
as they consume their own
flowers, green leaves running
down their crowns. Here is
the shapeliness of bodies
newly formed, the rich cloth
that covers frail bones and hides
roots that hold fervently
to this dark earth.
--For Jack Ridl
"The Saints of April" by Todd Davis, from The Least of These. © Michigan State University Press, 2010.
