Affirmation
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“All things were made by him
and without him was not anything made that was made.”
Jehovah made the palms of Zanzibar
(Observed from high above as we approached),
The first desideratum on this far
Epiphany. It is as if God broached
His first Edenic trial here, but then
What doctrine is extrapolated when
We contemplate these trees, because they be
Planted singly, or in brooches, or in
Necklace shapes along the curled pale shore? Are
They feathery phallic results of sin?
No, Christ made them and each is bent, bizarre.
They Bo w
a n d
C u r v e. Not one is strictly straight.
The Creator believes in what is alternate.
