#451 - then the sun shone

 

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then the sun shone

 

barnacle moss

and musty

 

it’s always go again

first time

 

light on the map

mountain top bumped

 

when the first ever washing went out

fish flew!

 

a joy beam sun swoop so

by wing and song survived

 

time was a circle still then

hum road again

 

where do you get this gopher wood?

where do you get the pitch?

 

that far bird

bit of cloud in beak

and many two-it

to whit

 

expecting to drift on in storms

instead come still

must wait

 

congratulate selves

all they never did

and how they hadn’t died

and now

 

600 years old

knew a few things

 

cubits here, there, decks

a covenant

 

fountains of the great deep burst forth

they turn on the shower too

 

Noah must have known this unbibling 

under the bunged on ‘thank you Lord’

much thanks for the unsmite

 

came to the back of the cupboard quicksmart

got to the bottom of the fridge  

 

because he lived before the book

and breathed much fresher air

 

then windows of the heavens shut up

had to wait it out

but green the world was come to

 

clean the idea of the righteous survivor

neither to be bitten yet

to rhyme the dark with airing, glare

 

bright pinpricks in the after-light

and dream a world again

forget it

still purr

stir

 

wake over our heads the garden

could we call it that?

all rusted

 

breath of life in the nostrils

tsunami so

some bung volcano under sea

that’s your Knossos gone

saved some furniture

pair of the bulls for leaping

 

every creeping thing

went forth by families

lucky and chosen they were

 

came to pass as well

greebly leeches

sharks in the bath

a Nile of crocodile

 

not to mention

annoying doves

with olive sprig

or was it twig

and buggered off for good

 

through windows yet to invent

a view

 

dragonflies, butterflies

everyone’s new

finding flowers

 

we let the breezing day through then

doors and all

 

out of the tin

and chimneys come winter

soil and the worm discovered

 

a croprise

after too much fish

just some of the things we saw

 

a joy beam splash

and sun swoop so

by wing and song survived

                                       

bow set there for a sign

all waiting  upon the cloud’s invention

 

all shone

as never before