God started small At the first showdown
between good and evil God didn’t come at anyone
like a cowboy God didn’t open with solar flares
or asteroids or mass extinction or planetary heat death
God didn’t outgun anyone God outmanned them
God made man in the face of the beast
And in the face of the beast God made —from inside
the great and gaping maw while languishing
in the hot damp In the face of that
great terror God summoned the smallest—
adrenaline serotonin hemoglobin oxytocin motes
of possibility God started by making—
light into land masses sand into vessels preservation
as civilization and sometimes God won
