Genesis

James Long
Dec 10, 2021
1 min read

Out on paper or off a bridge

This caustic sewn-apart

Sovereign hamartia

Stillborn to be

Still-to-be-still-mybeatingheart

Yearning

Heaving

Violent

Hymn

Nothing of nothing of nothing begins

And whether Garcin or Persphone

Adead in love or war

I wonder if I'd choose, believe

The dinner of the door

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