GENESIS
You offered darkness a companion
One he could not understand.
Good
Evening
Morning
One
Above and below
The rift began
Evening
Morning
Two
A ground underneath
The seas
Plants with their future inside them
Good
Evening
Morning
Three
I looked at the star chart, heaven’s lights, their dance of division
Signs for seasons
Where was the sign reading
“You are here”?
Good
Evening
Morning
Four
Swarms of fishes, teeming birds
Carried their futures inside them.
Good
Evening
Morning
Five
The herds crept across the earth
With their futures among them.
Good
All creation with its seed inside it
And then
We appeared, copies in the shape of the shaper
The brooder, the maker
The good separator
To govern, to subdue the teeming
To shape and be nourished
Very good
Evening
Morning
Six
Darkness did not understand
But he did stand under
We are here.
Complete and
Blessed
Not yet dressed
Rest for now
Seven
by Claire Jerram
Reflecting Pool 