When God Sleeps.
by =CyneNoir
I. So it comes to this: pangea tearing itself raw
from our throats to pour into squares of newly open sky
where the stars grew aches and darkened lakewater
once bloomed into bruised winters. Somewhere
beyond the thick of snow, prayers are strung
on moon-rattled winds
and birds’ teeth tear apart the poetry
of our hands. They will raise something beautiful
from these ruined words.
Continents shift slowly across fault-riddled skin-
they are
dirt-bound titans, these beasts;
rootless giants that mold themselves
to fit the vision we hold inside our heads. Oceans sigh
and their tides crawl ever upward.
