God created the heavens and the earth
i. Pieces of God
Pieces of God strewn sparking
across the white-gold star-field of galaxies,
word-spells: breathings and vowels, shutters and consonants,
meaning and yearning –
God uttering creation into being.
God created the seas and all that swims and swarms in them
ii. Prayer of the Manta Ray
She stepped deeper. Her ankle was now covered. She shivered even though the sea water was warm and the sun shone. A wisp of warm breeze caressed her. “Prescience of joy,” whispered an angel, as the black disc, the manta ray, circled his way to shore. He delicately manoeuvred his sharp sting away from her tiny ankle and stroked the pale skin with his white under-body. The whole Indian Ocean came flooding into her like a gentle all-powerful tide.
As the manta ray glided back into the depths, not all the tide receded. Her body remained one with the water.
‘…the birds of the air…’
iii. Life after
(Sonnet)
I stand heart-still on bush-edge trail.
Puny next to high bunched boughs
of sage green gums. The great wedge-tail
eagle soars: all before it stoops, bows.
My eye zooms: the bird has stalled:
gravity forgot; upheld by thermal.
All potential at rest, just the air mauled
by fierce talons; wings held formal.
Then, straight down from pin-head highs
the eagle drops, wings tucked, a grey stone-streak.
The lizard struck and killed, in cold eye’s
wink. Wings wide as Passion Week.
For all of us in God’s surprise
are taken alive in Christ’s dear beak.
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