(for earth day)
maybe god
left us with an irresponsible babysitter
all those aeons of loving care
since we were only hydrogen
and then some rube of a teenage sub-god
gave us a glimpse of fire, as a joke
and we were gone
out of the cradle,
over the rail,
taking in the fall
from this 21st-story balcony
stretching it in time
calling it a lifetime
making believe
we were born to achieve
this
terminal velocity
— March 26, 2007 / April 2009