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Divine Purpose
by Angela Yuriko Smith

He hangs in the sky

Disappointment and regret—

vaporous exhales

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of luminous green

and serpentine violet

obstructing the stars.

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The world egg, he guards.

The final act of his love—

his lover’s last wish.

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Nestled in the stars

and swaddled in nebula

warmed by the sun flares.

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Beneath the oceans

amniotic lava flows

nourishing his whelp.

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His eye, fixated

as he spins in retrograde—

in observation.

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He waits for the day

the earth crust will burst apart

and release his son.

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Nothing will be left

now having served its purpose

Gaia dies at birth.

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Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

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Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.

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