Palms Read

As often as always evolution is crawling from the sea,

Alive with the urgency like suicide,

Convinced the grass is greener on dry earth;

The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough

Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture hall

The crawl across the island, the sound of waves;

Embodied water sprouting legs as loud as gallop,

Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity.

All the young people who took a leak without faith into a riverbed

That drowns about as much as it saves

All the young cowards acting out for the brave forever

Hurled into the waters of their indifferent graves

Belly-up, half buried in the sand,

Extend a hand to the smallness of death.

Understand that only dying is this colossal, creation shedding skin

To find a perfect equilibrium like fossils

For a million years, raise your glass in cheers -

We will never answer where we came from only how we got here