Excerpt
(1)
before you were a cell, dividing into cells and more cells—
(2)
before blue before blue deepening and unwinding inside blue before bluegrey before the envelope of morning before opening the crisp envelope of morning before afternoon and afternoon’s picked threads before evening before the scattering of evening’s fish scales before crumpled dark before tarnished dark before glovesoft dark before world not yet world
(3)
all undone and unmade thick and ancient furred by weather not yet weather creased and lined rock and water linen-thin water and rock unseamed bulky dense and smooth not birth not death both icy and steamy sounds not yet sounds darkness before darkness and light before light beginning and ending ending and beginning woven and braided and woodsmoke fragrant and not woodsmoke fragrant shot through with glistening and murmuring unmurmuring cloud of murmuring also glistening linen-thin water and rock rock and water unseamed furred by the weather not furred lined creased steamy and icy smooth not birth not death all undone done made and unmade