body uncertain.

 

Add one grain of sand

until you have a black beach

instead of a set/ship

it would be this— possibly—

like the first condensation

collecting into geothermal basins. 

 

An out-cropping of black fragments/ shards

given hydrogen molecules

adhering to nothing. Nothing is as

solid as magma. Currents are

forming, the first undersea volcanoes. 

 

We chat over builders tea

about marine-palaeontology, pronouncing
it pale-ontology. We walk past

the community pool. The beginners dog-paddle

like Godzilla, moving
over the face of the waters, deeper than

any constructing hand.

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