Palms Read

As often as always evolution is crawling from the sea,

Alive with urgency like suicide, 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,...

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

That drowns about as much as it saves.

...Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity.

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.

All the young people who took a leap of no faith...

All the young cowards acting out...

All the young cowards acting out for the brave forever hurled

Into the waters of their indifferent graves.

For a million years raise your glass

We will never answer where we came from...

For a million years raise your glass in cheers

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

For a million years raise your glass

We will never answer where we came from...

For a million years raise your glass

...only how we got here.