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First Comes Love
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What shall we say
For real
But that God loves us
And would rather
Love us
Even more than judge us
Though there’s judgment, too
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Remember the first one?
It was
That this is good
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4 God saw that the light was good, . . .
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Join
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The way a building
Comes together
With everything that fastens
Nails
Glue
Screws and bolts
Certain guns and drills
That drive
The music
And a harmony
Until
Complete
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I don’t mean
Cathedrals built
To music
Who knows about that
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I mean the real noises
We provide
The voices of machines
With our own
Collaborations
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Metaphor
Or three-
Dimensional
The houses goes up
The people
Or some others
If it’s a shelter for
Some animals
Live
Inside
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There is a game
With fingers playing nicely
That emblemize
A steeple
When inside the church
The people
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Join
In building
All good ways
To shelter
All creation
Needing cover
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Create in Me
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The Spirit of God
Might not
Be inside the tree
But the Spirit
Might dance with the tree
And many trees
From time to time
I don’t know
How things are invested
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The Spirit of God
Might be in the tree
When exigency
Requires
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God is a rock
As a metaphor
But not the real thing
Having made the real thing
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There is that
Burning bush
That burned and didn’t burn
God used
And rearranged
The matter of
The bush in that encounter
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So maybe with the atoms
Of existence
The Lord loves to live beside
God or God’s agents
Asking for
Rearrangements
From time to time
To suit a miracle
A message for
Sixth-day creations
Who can have God inside
Intertwining
Spirits
When desired
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Word Processing
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In the beginning
There was God with the host
There were earth, darkness, abyss
And water
There were words
To explain
To initiate
Decrees
Then division and formation,
Creation as we know the story
Happened
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Later when the story’s told again,
We will say
Everything was made
With a word
The word could have been gravity
Or love
It was love
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(Einstein is quoted claiming that the greatest force in the universe is not gravity but love.)
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Second Book of Genesis
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God kept saying
That it’s good
Creation’s good
Each day of it
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To be there
Hear the names
Have God speak into our minds
In pre-fall grace
With understanding
There is delight
And faith
In all this
Without they’re being named
Only the day and night
All the animals
Us
And then a time of rest
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If we had been there
If we could have touched their hands
And drawn them back
From the tree
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A Song about Creation
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I am a Calvinist who
(enough of a Calvinist
who)
Believes the world has
Fallen with the first
Sin we decided to take on
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The world should
Be different, though there
Are reminders everywhere
In nature, in the
Morning, in the soft way
That evening falls
Sometimes
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Maybe it’s in newborn
Life that we have
The promise of creation
To be constant if not perfect,
Wonders in asymmetry
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Science and religion
Taken over by
The awe that greets us
In the mornings of
Every hour, every day
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Hexagons and spirals,
Nature seems
To favor these
(bee cells and nautili,
for instance)
And nebulae sometimes
Look like one-celled wonders
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And for all the shapes
And sizes
In leaves and roots,
Mitochondria, and the
So-much larger flesh outside
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Above and under all we know,
There is amazement
In waking to creation
Remade in amazement
Until “Earth and all stars”
Be renewed perfectly
One day,
A moment
Signaling forever
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“Earth and All Stars,” a hymn composed by David N. Johnson
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Carbon Copies
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Sometimes I don’t know
Why I believe in God
Because God is unaffected
By my question
Or the doubt
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God’s existence being
Unpredicated by my
Belief in God
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It’s not the best start
To philosophy, though Voltaire
Speaks of our need
To invent God, where the
Need seems to have been
God inventing us
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The universe
Cosmos, anyway
Might be a random
Set (set randomly)
Of chemical reactions
Given the first state
Of ephemera
Something or place we
Might have called
Etherea
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Without a place
Or calling it,
God could be
God of random
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We set the first
Dichotomy as chaos
And order,
When it might have been
Void and substance
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Our having what we have
Through design
Or the lack thereof
That could explain the
Platypus or
Emu
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Genesis
Out of genesis,
More than ex nihilo
While God cogitated,
Then declaring to the host
That more
Company was needed
Like the first,
The universe before
The universe
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Crazy Earther Kids
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How heavy
Is God’s hand?
Quarks and canyons,
Oceans
And neutrinos
Cosmic and subatomic
Creation and
Creating
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God is clumsy,
And a ridge
Is formed missing the
Mountain top
Designed;
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God sneezes—there’s
A platypus
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God can be funny about
Making things;
When
We get there,
We might receive requests
To teach
The angels humor
Based on
All our
Earth experience
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Antecedents
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I told my students,
Not so many pronouns
Making sure the subject is at hand
And it agrees
Not for the writer’s sake
But for mine
And any readers—
Say, a boss
Or those who must approve
The presentation with
The recommendation
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Yet here I am, often
Making a mystery of it
I want you to work a little
Sorry
To track the subjects
And to understand
How often they are intertwined,
And that’s real
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We have antecedents, too
Those who came before
And sometimes it’s a mystery
That we work out
With records and with words
To have something
Of a story
The genealogists with
Wisdom
And best-guessing
Giving answers so the rest of us move
On in the present
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Where we come from
Is Earth
In a gorge that was a garden
In a crescent
By three rivers
It’s a story and a good one
Whether Genesis or
The Silmarillion
Or Gilgamesh or
Theogony (when he believed)
Or Metamorphoses (when he did not)
Or the God
Who placed a hand down from the sky
To Earth
To spread the plains and, around the edges,
All the mountains
Or one who came up from below
Closer to the ground
And loving it
Did make mortals when going below
Was needed
To sort out all the hot things there
(I made this last one up)
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But all (real) depictions
Seem to contain a fall
Divinity or demons
Or our bad choices
They all live with us
(divinity, demons, choices)
Not only for the Calvinists
But as a reason
For the failures in a day
In an hour of time
Under the sun
Or in the argent light of moon
Wherever we trip,
Try to right ourselves
To dance again
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