Today over at dVerse Poets Pub – dorahak in Prosery has posted a prompt taken from a poem by Amy Woolard. From her poem, “Laura Palmer Graduates” based on director David Lynch’s surrealistic Twin Peaks, she has chosen this line for you to use creatively in your prose composition:
What does it matter
That the stars we see are already dead.
What does it matter that the stars we see are already dead? What anyway, does it mean to be alive, for stars or human beings? We all swim through the one way river of time temporarily fighting the tide of entropy.
The Big Bang inflated a world of chaos to which everything must return but meantime stars form – according to laws of physics and live and with their death make ever more complex elements which finally pave the way for us – living beings…
If stars flow counter to entropy then so too do we – garnering sustenance in seed and womb and creating order from our genetic blueprint. Growing up to have our brief moment gazing at the light from stars already dead before our own demise and deliquescing back into the disorder of death… Alive or dead the river is never the same again.