This is a Beginning
Closed my eyes for five minutes
and the last five hundred billion years
flashed before my eyes.
It was You, before Jesus,
You, before Moses,
Noah,
Abraham,
All I could see was Adam.
You were Adam
and the only word you knew
was ‘atom’
and you’d mouth it with a closed
fist to your chest—
Atom
Adam
Adam—
with galaxies for eyes,
an infinite pulsating heart
straight to God--
There you were with that
fist in the air telling the world
how much you loved it.
There you were
fetal-positioned floating
in the outer space womb,
this first creation.
We began here,
Adam,
as tiny atoms
on a cosmic journey north.
We began here,
as atoms,
and it took
five million Adam’s
to come after you
to get back to you.
(this poem first appeared in a publication called Public Pool-- though, the publication itself no longer exists. But we do. Him and I, we exist.)
