Impossibly wedged

Seeds thrust their green from grinding slabs

In ungenerous dust

Voracious clouds descend

Mandibles tear away photosynthesis

Common tempests expose tender roots

White-heat from a single eye withers

Yet we wonder that such genesis

Might not spring joyously up

Extending every fiber towards the yearning love

That should nurture it completely

Cursing the lazy neglect of the windblown shingle

And that the sun’s mirror mask is not dutifully worn

Darwin’s judgment is ever on our lips

Inscribing an elliptical curse of misinterpretation

(9/10/14)