Creation V.

(creation five)

From a distance, the earth looks like this:

composed of molecules and atoms,

it tilts right ever so slightly to make

winter and spring,

each opposite to one another and so

attracted.

Making the elements was the hardest part.

The stars brainstormed

for hours,

chewed the erasers on their

pencils, charted up how each would

fit together and decided at last

to leave it up to science.

How and why gravity began only Einstein

knows, though his dust has probably

floated up through the soil

and rejoined the cosmic race.

But through mist and grass and rock and hail,

through salt and weeds and trees,

caprice remains.

So it goes.