Before: Creation:
One: And light for day against night
Two: And a firmament against the waters
And
the waters in a ball against a spin to make land dry land
Three: And
grass and seed and trees fruit trees against themselves but within themselves
Four: And
lights against the sky a wide eye sky never closing only turning
And
a quiet eye always sometimes open sometimes not
And
stars those too on the hem of heaven
Five: And
birds And fish And whales
Against the wind and water they multiply
Six: And
the cattle creep in the dust
And
all the beasts creep against the trees
And
the seeds inside the seeds inside the seeds inside the mystery within a
firmament
And
least of these me between beasts
and trees
on
my knees bending knees
sweeping
clean the earth
for
my Sweet Pea
And
we creep we eat weeds we sweep the sky with our baleen mane, our fractured
jaw
After: New
Creation:
Six: And we creep in the dust and screech like
bats against bricks and moonlight
Five: tight
light under the roof of night against all day gone day
Four: gone
out day forever out like the stars too and no way to know our way
Three: to
the gate, after all the grass is pulled away, after all the mud and clay are
laid square
after
he’s laid prostrate and I fling my fist-ball of earth in
reverse
reverse to the earth
Two: to
rub my face raw with His curse of it that firmament against the water
One: that
night against light
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