Science Versus Mary Magdalene

The equation on the chalkboard
displays the arrow of time,
dustily pointing toward disorder and dissolution.
Entropy beckons like an undertaker.
The eschatology of science:
Every sun, finally, saying goodbye,
with no one left to watch the fading of the light.
Darkness in the end, and the cold quantum flux. 

But she shares news,
a crack in the math she's never heard of,
something in the seams the formulae, or beyond.
What she witnessed will not calculate or compute.

She heard her name on the breeze,
saw him standing there in the hazy dawn,
beyond physics, reason, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
A stone rolled and broke the algebra
telling us what we could know or believe. 

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