I.

I saw a pleiad of marbles

Coated in ice

Rolling across the black marble

Twenty suns were in their whorls

Twenty moons graced the floor

As I fell backwards

They shattered

The stars leapt to the ceiling

And the gaping floor consumed them

Behold the birth of the universe

Twenty suns and twenty moons

Collapsed into the void

Breadth and width and mouth and depth

All came to be in dust and black

Thus more moons and more suns were born

II.

A thousand tongues then proceeded

To wag

Civilization thus came to fruit and meat

Lines of toil wrecked the ground

And stone beget wood beget bronze

Men rose and fell and ate and slept

Women just fell

But let's not debate politics

Let fire shock the rock

And dust make all men equal

Suns burned black and red

Moons blue

And stars grew and grew

When colors flew across the mouth

The glass marbles returned

III.

Suns burned black and red

Moons blue

And stars grew and grew

When colors flew across the mouth

The glass marbles returned

Ice was simply ice

Fire simply fire

Dust dust

Shaped by its maker

Thus the universe

Rose and fell