The Ordinary Care Of Providence Poem by Robert Ronnow

Madison's defense of the establishment clause to the
      Virginia legislature:
'Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them, and not only during the period of miraculous aid but long after it had been left to its own evidence and the ordinary care of Providence.'

May I say
electromagnetic waves. Radiant energy.
Light travels in waves
Waves of what?
Electromagnetic waves consist of electric and magnetic
      fields
oscillating at right angles to each other
and to the direction of motion of the wave.
All waves can be described
in terms of amplitude, wavelength, frequency and speed.

Waves of what?
Think of a hand waving. The wave itself
is virtual, ideal. The hand and eyes are waves. The
      wave's
a quantum guess.
Religion and electromagnetic waves- visible, audible,
      ideal
causing real reactions in earth-time (real as it gets) .
      Madison's
ordinary
      care of Providence
            impossible to handle.

Needed is a medium: antenna, cathode ray, page,
body
      hairy, sweaty
            diurnal
with the capacity to say Providence electromagnetic
      visible light
element god.
Alone in your life and body. Say
the heavy word
      weighty word
            isotope
charged word (ion god)
the particle physicist and political philosopher have it
      over the poet
who is sharing ignorance
pretty much all he doesn't know.

Or who stays within a dimension she knows she knows,
      extrapolating
her hand in a child's hand or husband's hold or nest in a
      tree hole
limited government
      separation of powers
            daily low intensity warfare
light, radio and gamma waves
Waves of what?
'Matter can be treated by both wave and particle theories (the duality of matter) since its convertible counterpart- light- has long been treated successfully by both theories.'
convertible counterpart
                                    light matter light

Solutions to the equations are called wave functions, or
      orbitals.
'Religion or the duty which we owe our Creator and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much to soon forget it.'

Last night's movie She's No Angel on the Christian
      channel
begged many essential questions (and had bad music)
why
the loving liberal successful couple should
keep a shotgun in the home (later used per
      Shakespeare)
what
the community's (authority's) reaction to the violence
and precipitating dissembling might have been (per The
      Crucible)
whether
the golden spiritual couple would subsequently
      dissemble lobby or defend
themselves and the loved one legally and lengthily (per
      Dostoyevsky)
where
unclean tragic outcomes end in Death's cleanliness
ravens eat the fur and guts of bad guesses off the roads
      (per A Designer of Systems)

but not I think missing
the deeper lesson

that she is neither her past
nor her wings

but a pure goodness
      bone stillness
            potential energy

a light wave
and a particle.