most
branch of a blue-
shaggy pine—a sparrow's
proud crowing
falls
and spirals-
out the widening world;
—animating
the inanimate, abolishing
the competition
between—
In the beginning
and—World without end.
August and
lusty he suspects it must
just bear repeating—
life, all
life,
all life
on earth—he trills—
remember it happened
only once;
its just,
again, it must
have born repeating—
about a billion
billion—
billion times.