What I Know by Mara Lemanis
What I Know by Mara Lemanis
What I know
The earth loosed waves of carbon
to grow my thought
linked disks of iron
to grow my blood
these things engendered me
I know
thoughts trading gas
blood cycling mass
spun from ancient wastes
though what I know
knows me much more
stored deep inside
calderas spewing haze and humus
what my mind can't devise
it dares to improvise
launch tall mythologies
stamped in scripture
--"In the beginning..."--
biblical oaths
dressed in legend
--"All’s well that ends well"—
pitched in proverbs
chains of letters words
thrown up against
the dark mesh of the sky
weaving a lodestar
to wink down at me
a time-worn hoary joke
poking the borders of my thought
it mimes me well
I pray it stays aloft
where I have coaxed
a sacred promise
to make my carbon myths
shine like a cosmic vow
to hang a testament of fire
that will not end
when all the earth
has turned to gas.
--Mara Lemanis
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