Jim Redmond
The Master Algorithm
When God retracted His retractable
parts, the universe was,
by way of this mechanism,
little darkling begat,
and in its begotten something left
of His light fixtured
for the first time,
raw information
outside the Godspace,
13.799 ± 0.021 billion earth years ago,
the light was pure data
but also the gnosis thereof,
shot out and out and out,
forever, amen.
In the beginning, the primary voice
command saying, let there be,
and ever since then,
the light connecting
all things to be
known with His unknowable
AND, OR, and NOT.
Jim Redmond received his MFA from the University of Michigan and his PhD in poetry from the University of North Texas. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, PANK, and Sixth Finch, among others. His chapbook, Shirts or Skins, won Heavy Feather Review's 2013 chapbook prize. A full-length collection, Get Back to Work, will be published by Schism Press in 2021.