on writing a poem1
     by Peter Roberts

i capture
an eternity
in a single moment of time:
a forest
in one seed;
a meadow
in a blade of grass;
a species
in a spermatozoon;
a civilization
in a lone man;
a world
in a mote of dust;
a universe
in an instant of love.

¹ — © Copyright 1978 by Beyond Baroque Foundation. First published in beyond baroque 782, July 1978 (Vol. 9, No. 2 of Beyond Baroque Foundation Publications), p. 46.