I'm on a bit of a roll. This is a more experimental piece in form and
content that would benefit from some honest comment.

IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

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Then after new seabeds were laid down
with slime
              life began to squirm
as trillobytes
                 after a couple of billion years

If human life seems insignificant
                 by comparison
a human mind can still explain the whole
                 span
when we get down to millions

After a super ice age some
       hundred and fifty million years long
positivefeedback from both poles
ice reflecting light from ice so thick
volcanoes were the only vent to warm
       the air of this earth again
a hundred thousand centuries later

and all the while
        the eyes watches
                                 irridescing
luminescing
                looking at what other creatures
reveal or conceal
                for what is sure is subterfuge
came early
even from the eyes of a trillobite
                            as deep time transformed
                                  into history
and the eyes strive
                           to understand
what began
before the intrigues of costume drama



bw
James

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