Eternal night.
Before the opening of the four senses
All was dark, all was silent.
There was movement in the darkness
There was life and there was death.
A black sun rose in a black sky.
Energy was converted from one form into another and then back again. The energy, leaving then returning to its source.
Universal to the particular to the Universal.
The moon travelled around the earth and the earth travelled around the sun.
The grinding of cogs.
The motions of the machine.
Vivisectionists perform cartwheels.
Eyes and ears opened
Gently, quivered, like spring’s first flowers.
Birth of light and sound.
Desire found its object.
The fox pounced on the chicken.
Birds sang
Spoke in tongues.
The river found its voice.
(Fed by the sun and the air the world is a womb)
sunsets flare up
nectar
arsenic.
The World began.