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Life, the Interloper

There is a small eternity
'Twixt my coming and my going.
Though it be filled with riddles
And words crawling in the mud,
Time is no interloper, and I freeze.

Up from the shale and storm,
Up from the majesty crawling forth to mate,
Life shouts like a thunder shock.
The earth retches,
And a form arises from the thin mud,
	amphibian as a cross.

Part fish,
Part rat,
It is inscribed on the genes,
And I read it like a nettled book.
I read the record of the dead
And wonder, could this be us?
Or from a passing comet do we hail?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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