Burnsiana
Scroll back from the cosmos,
To inner space.
The mind’s micro-structure
Nanoscientists mind-mapping
The brain’s hundred billion neurons,
Its thousand trillion connections,
Processing 0.1 quadrillion thoughts per second.
Vastly more sophisticated
Than any computer.
What causes that leap
Across the synapse?
The spark between Creator and Man?
That lets the poet contemplate the rose –
And move the human heart.
