EarthCentre: The End of the Universe

By M. Stow12

EarthCentre: The End of the Universe

An Epic prose poem in seven parts. Introduction...a journey, back and forth in Time, a funfairgroundride through the EarthCentre theme park, of the future, and passing, and present-time, of the reader...

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301386888

M. Stow12

The author Malcolm Stow was born in Essex England, lived in the east end of London, and now lives in the suburbs. He is a philosophy graduate from the University of London, and hold a masters degree in Social Science Research with the University of East London. He has had a varied career outside of authorship, from working from an early age in kitchens and then bars and cafes in London and the South of France, working the vendange in France, picking melons and fruit, working in Hotels in Aylah Eilat, He has travelled widely for pleasure and work, to the US and Far East, and looking to reach Australia on the Bucket List. After an apprenticeship in plumbing and heating engineering after leaving school, he discovered he did not have the head for numbers and calculations, or the back and knees for this work. He had visited Greece and studied philosophy and history through the Encyclopaedia Britannica in the Library there, completing an education incomplete of at least this aspect of knowledge and life. He went to London University as a mature student, to continue studying philosophy. Following the attaining of this honours degree took up the training, and profession, of Social Work. His writing reflects a deep passion for people and humanity, in the smallest as well as the greatest achievements and failures of our species. He embraces the philosophies, as well as the mythology and religions of peoples across the globe, their politics and economics (in so far as anyone can claim to have any grasp over these latter aspects); and the social and family ties of understanding and compassion, which span all of his works to date. His three works published so far are: Walter Mepham (a first world war (his own) family saga); WarFair4 (a novel); EarthCentre (an epic prose or graphic poem subtitled: An Anthropic Odyysey) and Universal Verses 1-3 (a continuation of EarthCentre:The End of the Universe). All, apart from Walter Mepham, are awaiting final editing and completion through 2014-15, and may only be seen on Smashwords currently.

Book preview

Introduction: in two-parts:

1. EarthCentre.

-Welcome to EarthCentre,

with purpose, determined,

turning biospherical, annual seasonal, tilting, wobbling,

tipped averse, circumpolar sloped,

-…terraqueous medium-sized planet,

ice-capped mountainous, gazed-over.

Glazed-over, glacial mist clouded waterfall streaming,

pool-lake rivering, riven unfrozen,

grey gritstone granite gravel,

earthen redbrown sunlit valley hillside.

Forested green grazed pasturous plain,

desert yellow, sandy beached, cliff-top edged,

coastal grey-blue jade oceanic seas;

photo-opportunistic, orbital imaging,

as in a wave, delighting,

disquieting,

sunblind slatted, moving slotted,

seat sited framed; cinematic; and only now just briefly glimpsed beyond,

seaboard city riverboard harbouring, town school and housing estate,

factory chimney and office block, hospital and hotel,

palace palisade, and imprisoning barricade.

The celestial shoreline,

spectral moonlit reflective rainbow overarching, diffusing atmospheric,

static-electric aurora, suffuse friction crackling, flash lightning arced,

the falling clouded sky,

-…with escape velocity reached,

earthed lightning soldered, white tunnelling black conic twister landed.

Ground thunder clapped, turbulent rising stem ring vortex spiked,

and anvil hooked, breasting bulbous, wall capping,

following hot convection current,

soaring, stacked flanking firestorm conflagration.

Global circumnavigating river and ocean seaway,

road and railway, buckled, burned and buried, and washed away,

airways dashed to the ground,

wind and hydroelectric, and solar nuclear power,

coal mined seam quarry cratered, smelted bio gas,

oil-well pouring pumped, plastic piped parkland,

metal cable linking,

farmland field and village hamlet, all over-grown, and long-abandoned.

Quake shaking, sloshing sub-aqua-terranean,

hailstorm hailing monsoonal soaking leaden, laden cloudbursting, culminating seismic wave-breaking,

over-whelming cliff top breaching,

clear distance reaching.

Sweeping inland, undulating rolling hillside,

stepped, steeped, swept peak-ridged,

pitched and troughed; as if on rollers,

booming tectonic stage-plate.

Geologic fault-line rifting, slid shifting,

basilar subducting,

continental drifting, basalt rafted,

over sedimentary sandstone flowed,

glowing luminous, coalescent aflame estuarial,

equatorial swampland, rising ash and dust debris,

fallout rained, gradually receding, inexorably slowly, tidal dredging,

disgorging mudslide, sludging, quagmire.