CASUS NOSTER [I]

CREATION


frankly i don't think that i made you

but you made me


not from your rib, but from your

hands you molded me and breathed

into me this sweetness of

living with you


your fingers sculpted my body

(perhaps the least amazing

and wondrous of your

hands' workings) to make it

this thing for you-

your desires culminated in

this unholy form

but i suppose you saw

something that my un

divine eyes could not

when you wished for

aid in your

holy calling


you stood back and looked

at this to wonder

what, if who, it

would be - your servant

or your equal or

your love (whatever that

is) and you knew that the

only way to find out

if this form could

be anything was to take

the indicative and

make it imperative


when your breath swept my eye

lids and made them flicker open

i saw the heavens and earth

on your forehead

and sea and sky

on your lips and eyes

that God gave to us

to me

now yours

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