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Earth Tilts and Substance Crumbles

Updated: Sep 20, 2022

By Richard Mather



Earth tilts and substance crumbles.

Objects strain at the seams, crack, come off hinges,

decohere, liquefy, dissolve into atoms.


Sparrows cry “hosanna,” throw themselves at moving cars;

a lone fox leaps to his hole, moans like a saxophone;

the buzzard twists his head in disbelief, picks over pieces,

turns corpses, flies away.


I sit small and still, like a closed fist,

hear the stars howling as their sunbulbs

flash and burn for the final time.


I am suspended in a void, the only constant body

in a vast black field of absolute unimaginable nothingness.


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