Primal Testament

Primal Testament

Original Text

Ian Lancashire, "Gitana," Primal Testament (Niagara Falls: Seraphim Editions, 2016): 41-43.
 

1Asteroid Targets
2   Gaian Chicxulub:
3      Terranean Anarchy
4         Creates a Gap.
5            Gone is the Cretaceous
6            Tertiary in Ashes;
7         Countless the Goodbyes to
8      All That.
9   Gaian Creation
10Gapes after Chicxulub:
11   Anarchy Targets
12      Terra post- Asteroid.
13         Goodbye to the K-
14         T, All un-
15      Counted, the Goners: that's
16   That now: just Ashes at the
17Sea- Gate.
18Rosalind Franklin wept not,
19for such breaches do not count
20with genes that self-proof-edit:
21need not ask who will be last
22one standing, it will be the code
23that writes itself, not forgiving
24oak confessionals that come to grief
25with third-hand-out dried bouquets,
26distracted with an offer
27to foreclose on unpaid debts
28to a cemetery plot,
29a body's real estate,
30and leave on the plate a bill
31whose implications can but
32stupefy intelligence:
33re-birth, resurrected flesh,
34payback or vindication,
35a clean well-lighted place
36for Enki, Inti, Freyja,
37Aphrodite, and themselves?
38Imagination envies
39scientific information;
40both persistently subvert
41the will to understand them,
42one tells Him where He wants to go,
43science is a picture show
44excluding Him from what He knows.
Publication Start Year
2016
RPO Edition
2016
Special Copyright

"Gitana" (c) Ian Lancashire. Printed gratis, and specifically for Representative Poetry Online, with permission of the author. As published in Primal Testament (Niagara Falls: Seraphim Editions, 2016). Any other use, including reproduction for any purposes, educational or otherwise, will require explicit written permission from Ian Lancashire.