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Deus ex Machina

Part 1.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the
earth was a formless void.
Genesis 1.1-2a

I lie awake at night wondering
how someone – Godde – could live in nothingness.

Evenings and mornings accumulate.

I decide the story offers a definition.

Godde: the one who lives in
and creates out of

nothing.

When I am seven it is a private concern,

I have not lived long enough to worry
about the effects of the rest of the story.

When I am sixty, l'esprit de l'escalier, I imagine

the darkened anti-gravity chamber.

Having lingered in the liminal stairway,
I perceive a new beginning.

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Godde: Adapting the genitive form of Old and Middle English “Godde’s” I employ “Godde”. It creates a bridge
between god and goddess – allowing for, one hopes, an openness to the Otherness of the divine. I retain the
traditional spelling in the quotations.