These facts dissolve the breath

quoted in Genesis 1: -1

in a quadrillionth of a second

when the blind saw the dying

as the phosphorescence

of a smoking white jewel

its silting folds of lightning fog

reflecting whispers of lit faces

the cloud a pearl in the shell

of earth's verticality of beauty.

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Open your eyes

to become blind

part your lips unless

there is time left to sing

words to bear the displaced weight

of what can't be spoken.

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A rising continent of superheated air

shrouded in the jewel

and the accrual of death

steaming the skin of the sea off.

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We will make a star

so that the scent of death

reaches, touches every face.