Oyster and Lightening

Titled from a photograph by Jesse Vasquez

Oyster and Lightening

once up on a clock,

before day moves

before night

before sun,

dance,

partnered

seconds and centuries,

seconds with sinew

with muscles

with minutes,

and lightening lashed

a dark room,

passing motion into law,

sea creatures

dust

a right foot

an arm

a rib,

two new creatures

rag ends,

to raise and set suns,

a hurricane

tosses lives

over new land,

breaks windows

light cracks

this lonely

shuttered

empty night,

now humans watch

from their graveside.