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Of Religion

Each being: an instrument of His?
The herons chase minnows at

His behest? The dog fights
his new collar (one strap

behind the ears, loop around nose)
to teach us some new tricks

regarding anger and patience?
Consider this our world’s center:

roiling, balled-up mass of
tentacle upon tentacle, a sideways

globe-sized eye—

~

The second before the gunman
makes his intentions believable:

there—that face—no happiness.
Understanding is nothing more

than the brain at the middle of it
all, peacefully asleep.

Are we, then, the dream?    

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   Of Earth
   Of Current
   Of Hardship
   Of Opposites
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