by Brett Rutherford
GOD HAS
no enemies
no favored kings
    or princes
no national
     boundaries
no favorite colors
no winning teams
no prayers heard
no idea where
     the lost pet went
no warehouse
where the dead are kept,
no tally of names
and ancestry
no more in one place
     than another,
no Golden Age
     remembered,
no covenants there
     to be reminded of
no wish 
    to be bothered at all
oh, and no name
    to call him by,
no anagrams or sigils,
yet not, assuredly not
nothing at all
since his or its
eidolon persists.
One thing only
asserts itself
everywhere
and instantly,
a thing ironically
called "g"
elusive and
ineluctable, a thing
that makes anvils drop
on the heads of fools,
or apples to
    the open hand --
Gravity!
 
 
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