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Poetry
Speculative

Once upon a time,
there was no time,
or even a
once
without a twice for reference.
There was,
however,
a beginning
and there were the Four
existing as One.

Gravity left first — symmetry broken.
The Three didn't mind;
they whispered
that he had never really
been one of them.

But the action
ended the beginning.

Because
without Gravity's
mediation the Three
cooled toward
each other.

The Strongest
(glad to get away)
was drafted into service
to restrain the invading
Quarks and Gluons
and to chain them,
forever, inside
Protons and Neutrons.

The remaining Two,
twin sisters,
Electro and Weak
at odds,
over Bosons,
divided.
No love lost.

Still there was
an end
and there was light.



                                                              


 

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Copyright 2008, David Siegel Bernstein, PhD.. All rights reserved.

Dr. David Siegel Bernstein lives within the shadow of Philadelphia.  To support his writing addiction, and excessively extravagant lifestyle, he consults as a forensic statistician.  He has been published in numerous print, podcast, and online magazines—including the "Best of 2006" in Apollo's Lyre, the 8th Anniversary Issue of AlienSkin Magazine, "Best of Poetry 2006" in Aphelion and the 10th Anniversary Issue of Antipodean SF.  He also serves on the board of directors for the Philadelphia Writers' Conference, leads the Words-in-Progress writer's group and contributes a monthly article to Abandoned Towers Magazine Blog.

Most recently his writing has appeared in The Storyteller, Short Story Library, The Absent Willow Review, Crossed Genres, M-Brane SF, AlienSkin Magazine, Afterburn SF, Ray Gun Revival, Beam Me Up, Mysterical-E, Aoife's Kiss, Defenestration, Orchard Press Mysteries, The Rose & Thorn, Paper Crow, Midnight Times, Twisted Dreams Magazine, Reflections Literary Journal, Liquid Ohio, Down in the Dirt, MindFlights, Wanderings, The Cynic Online Magazine, Every Day Poets, Enigma, Flashshot, Outer Darkness, Black Petals, Kaleidotrope, The Tiny Globule, Static Movement, Pen Pricks, Anotherealm, Everyday Weirdness, MicroHorror, 50 to 1, Bewildering Stories, and the podcast Beam Me Up.

His work has also appeared the anthologies: we the Poets, Revealing All your Dirty Little Secrets, and Templar and Other Stories of Suspense and Terror.

His nonfiction has been published in academic journals, newsletters, and a chapter in the book: Politics and Economics of Asia.

His non-literary projects include:  Re-inventing the wheel, the Sisyphus relief project, referring to himself in the third person (as THE David, lest fools confuse him with the other one).

You can visit his site at http://DavidSiegelBernstein.blogspot.com

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