Palms Reads

As afraid as always

Evolution is crawling from the sea

Alive with urgency like suicide, like suicide

Convinced the grass is greener on dry earth

The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough muffled murmur

Sneaking through the lecture hall

The crawl across the island

The sound of wave's embodied water sprouting legs as loud as a gallop

Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity

All the young people who took a leap without faith

Into a riverbed that drowns about as much as it saves

All the young cowards acting out for the brave forever hurled

Into the waters of their indifferent graves

Belly-up, half buried in the sand

Extend a hand to the smallness of death

Understand that only dying is this colossal

Creation shedding skin to find a perfect equilibrium like fossils

For a million years, raise your glass in cheers

We will never answer where we came from only how we got here