«In the old days, when God cast down / His gaze upon the just created earth, / Words stopped the sun, / Words tore down whole towns. The terror-striken stars / huddled round the moon / When words, like pink flaming tongues / Floated down through air. The lower levels of beings, / Like...»
«When the earth was watching Lord with tremor / Handling its demanded overhaul, / Name restrained the sun from daily travel, / Name tore down Jericho's wall. Eagle's wings went paralyzed entire, / Stars fled to the crescent terrified / When the Name a-swam like salmon fire / In the unint...»
«Then, when God bent His face / over the shining new world, then / they stopped the sun with a word, / a word burned cities to the ground. When a word floated across the sky / like a rose-colored flame / eagles closed their wings, frightened / stars shrank against the moon. And we creep...»
«In those days, over the new world, when / God turned His face,** then / The word stopped the sun,*** / The word brought down a town.**** The eagle stretched not his wing, / The stars in fear stung at the moon, / When, like a rose colored flame, / Through the heights, the word swam. And...»