Steven Schroeder | the father of the hydrogen bomb addresses the future in Bowling Green, Ohio
on stage, an old man
huddled over a microphone
sinks under the weight of nine
decades into a straight-backed chair
at a conference in Bowling Green, Ohio.
the past,
which exists,
he says, can be
established
with certainty,
but not
the future,
which does not.
the present,
which goes
without saying,
settles like ash
drifting from a slow fire,
an event from which a cone of light
emanates, spacelike, a world, burning.
Chicago
6 August 2023
