veterans writing group 12-1-07
a creation tale, told tellingly
before god created; what was it 7 or 8 thousand years ago
before yin and yang brought forth the 10,000 things
before vishnu and shiva created and destroyed
and created and destroyed and created
before the great spirit impregnated mother earth
with the first people
before watson and crick broke the code
before anansi first walked in africa
before mohammad beat christ at arm wrestling in spain
before christ visited revenge on the saracins
before yggdrasill, the tree of life, crucified odin
to bring rune magic wisdom
before zeus found mount olympus
before romulus killed remus on a roman hillside
before adam met eve at the first sock[less] hop and
they copulated their way to knowledge reserved for god
before the first mitochrondria symbioticly agreed
with the first dna to survive
before the big bang brought light and dark
heat and cold day and night
before the cosmic astronaughts seeded the universe
before the waste material of anaerobic matter
created atmospher, created green
before the ocean was primal soup animated by lightening
before e equaled mc squared
before any kingdom: animal, plant, mineral
before any thought of or by any being
before anything
before anyone
before anywhere
there was silence
the big bang shattered
the silence of the void, now
we sit, recollect
gregory ross, 2007
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