rising from the new minted earth, granite
and basalt, proto-continents shuffling
and stacking the deck, first shadows flung
from the ultraviolet haze. A fern
uncurls from the swamp, the microscopic furnace
of replication warms the world, one
becoming two, two four; exponential blossom.
Lush with collision, the teacup balance
of x and y, cells like balloons
escaping into the sky - then the dumbstruck
hour, unmoored by a river,
a first fish creeps to the land to marvel
at the monstrous buds of its toes. And stars
grow feet and walk across the years, into these dozing,
ordinary days, climbing the spine's winding
stair, where crickets yawn and history spins.
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by Joanie Mackowski, 2011
