Why Is Everything Spinning? – a poem by Megan Wildhood

Why Is Everything Spinning?

                         God drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden,
                          God placed the cherubim and a flaming sword
                            that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
	                                                                               ~Genesis 3:24

It’s only when we’re disoriented that we get it.
We fall, hit our head, and then it’s like we see
things as they really are according to science:

every particle of the universe is whirling.
It’s not a problem that everything is spinning.
It’s just a problem that we can only feel it 

when we “fall.” It’s actually when we fall
that we get up. Science still seeks
the reason for twirl from top to bottom,

but they are barking up all the wrong trees,
unable to see the forests for all of them.

We who have fallen know why 
everything is 
spinning.

Megan Wildhood is a writer who helps her readers feel seen in her monthly newsletter, poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her full-length poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun and elsewhere. You can learn more about her at meganwildhood.com.