Origin Frame

For certain,

God began alone and deformed.

Compression prompted God

to rise and extend,

separating God’s loneliness to the sky

and deformity to the land.

This expansion coaxed a desire

for devotion, opening God’s eyes

to a woman,

who nurtured the land,

while God lit up the sky.

She made carvings of birds in trees,

fashioned the grass into shapes of flowers,

and with stones, made shapes of beasts crouching.

God saw her creations and laughed,

inspiring the birds into flight,

the grass filled with colorful flowers,

and a stampede of beasts rumbled the ground.

Discovering God’s nature,

she gathered pebbles and made a shape,

similar to hers, but shorter,

with flowers decorating the head.

God saw her creation and hummed agreeably,

but the pebbles remained unchanged.

The woman cried angrily 

extracting thick, heavy rain from the clouds.

With a bolt of white hot lightning,

God sliced through the rain

striking an oak tree.

Frightened, the woman concealed

herself amongst the flowers

hoping God’s anger would pass by.

As the sky cleared, she stood to see

God’s creation of a man 

with leaves in his hair.

She smiled.

Knowing her nature, God

gave man the seeds to expand 

the branches of trees and multiply

with the birds, flowers, and beasts.

For certain,

God was pleased and rested.