Famous Numbers And Then There's Me

Avogadro's number, sand and stars, buttons
on the universe's dark coat. Pi's repeating infinitum
crafting a new language based on a circle argument.
Planck and Einstein, big C and little h, humongous
constants standing singularly over all the others.
Schrodinger's deep equation with Hamiltonian operator
making good practice for P-Chem majors at exam time.
And the Googol, a duotrigintillion, ten thousand sexdecillion
on the long scale, or ten sexdecilliard on the Peletier scale.
At night I close my eyes and the numbers dissolve.
I see angel hairs splitting the wind and seraphim radiant
with joy moving the sun across the sky. I see unnumbered
rays from portents of darkness and ominous rims.

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