The black hole slowly eating each
galaxy from its center may be birthing a new
universe elsewhere—infinite
density here could create Big Bangs
across the wormhole. The woman insists
upon the shadow meanings of I need time
alone every day, while the man pleads
for the literal. Apology becomes armistice.
Physicists see only the black holes’
distortion of other bodies. They say
singularity and mean
I don’t understand.