we look through a window,
trees and flora arranged to splatter
into view;
my heart a wet sloshing sound
as words escape concave moments
(in time to stumble, sunday lulling
over continents and deepening oceans)
the thriving wild, we think
and feel contented
but all cracks became canyons
in a day— the day of register,
when flooding faith melted an earth
beneath our feet
and we are more than just creatures, now