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The Whole World Fell

from Small Small Seeds by Of Asaph

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We had been cutting the earth for weeks,
stooped over, sticking to sack-like shirts
with the necks drawn out,
collecting dust and feeling heavy in our backs.

We held once-steady grips that made mutiny of our
prodding, shooting matchwood to the far side of our wrists.
The kinked spades made our bones flap
each time we scratched a cobble, but
we kept slinging them across our chests.

And when we looked up we grew afraid.
Every wedge of soil - the shards of planks,
the cracked, split rocks were, in their speed,
flung straight up for days.
Each clump was held up by the next dangling a
pillar of dirt & muck so long as we kept eyes to the clay.

And every item had come unstuck and begun to drop.
We gave in and waited for our tower to end us.

But all the elements rushed past,
as if we made no difference.
They struck the ground and kept plunging through,
pulling the earth with them.
We were suspended; even weight was missing.

On the other side of the fresh silence
we could at last make out
a luminescence.

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from Small Small Seeds, released November 5, 2010

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