"And infinity spirals down..."

Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 from Hubble

I just found this truly marvelous poem:

INFINITY AND GOD

My five-year-old is enamored of the words

infinity and god, employing them

to map space and time. God is bigger

even than the biggest monster or spaceship.

A race car’s infinity fast, boys eat infinity cookies,

his scrubbed face is, he says, infinity shining –

shining all the way up to God.

At day’s end,

God shrinks — small enough to become

the perfect stillness and perfect silence

that rests at the end of his nightly prayer.

And infinity spirals down to a feather in his pillow.

-- Richard Jones