photo by Nancy Dean Mercury AUMNIVORE                             i am an aumnivore—                             predator of aumnipotent,                             aumnipresent and aumniscient...                             — Nancy Dean Mercury, 7-6-2010 How this little rock has gotten so big? His mouth, one-third the size of his head, his face dark and his eye perfectly round. Some six weeks ago they celebrated the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, and this fellow looks like one of them. I ask aumnivore what he has in his mouth, but he can't speak, having just swallowed a triangular stone whole and remains silent. Could it be the Giant Pyramid of Giza, the Philosopher Stone of the Alchemists, or Platonic Lambda, Soul of the Universe? Aumnivore has swallowed them all like a Black Hole gobbling up galaxies. And I recall the Taittiriya Upanishad— O wonderful! O wonderful! O wonderful! I am food! I am food! I am food! I eat food! I eat food! I eat food! Born before the gods, gone beyond the universe, shining like the sun— I have swallowed all the light!         — Peter Y. Chou              Mountain View, 7-15-2010