Song for a Seeker of Eden

Over the face of naked waters
a nameless breath was blowing

In wide wind
white seeds of weakness &

weightless days of realization
whirled in one confused flurry

A subtle hand separated
light from dark
dark from salted sky

& turned

to lift solid air above
from undulating dark seas below

On the second day
a sphere of raw fire
was carried up
into blank dark
to create day

& a round stone mirror
rose into
the opposing sky
in a shower of sparks
to paint night

Our globe’s green skin
split into countless
shoots of wet grass

& the bark of trees burst
into soft green flames

Blizzards of birds
brought fresh brilliance
to foliage

& seven oceans flooded
with flashing blue life
of countless fish

At the next dawn
dark infant soil
learned new red languages ~

pulses of horses & bulls

Massive shadows of
elephants & rams
spilled into wilderness

wildness of rain-wind

On the following day
plots of dull clay were shaped
into articulate human fingers

Between blood & blood
skin & skin
man & woman ~

the two took shape

Held in delicate hands
of sentient trees
one unique
in rich scarlet fruit
pregnant with secrets

& seeds that carried
rumors of death

Amidst wrinkled branches
a serpent made
of the yellow muscle of want
wound insidious whispers

You will know
yourselves

& fathom the sky
if you bite

this blood-red fruit

Each stretched a fleshy hand
toward one apple
that was their own
crimson consciousness

Man & woman shared
that dark-starred fruit
until their lips bled with vision

Taste of sunset
inside the sky

Naked
they ate
red within the red
as the first leaf wrinkled

& blindly fell

David Leo Sirois

David Leo Sirois is a Canadian-American poet published 121 times, in 17 countries. His work has been translated into 12 languages (Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, French, German, Czech, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Chinese, Turkish, & Doric). He hosts Spoken World Online, the Zoom continuation of SpokenWord Paris. His first collection is called Humbledoves (poems to pigeons & plants). He won Third Prize in Winning Writers' Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, & his poetry has appeared in journals such as <i>The Bombay Review, The Poetry Village, One Hand Clapping, Indian Periodical, The Sunday Tribune Online, THE BASTILLE, </i>&<i> Terre à Cièl</i> (which also published his translations from the French). David is often featured at global events, such as the Panorama International Literature Festival, & 100 Thousand Poets for Change, as well as in many international podcasts & interviews. He is also a singer/songwriter, radio DJ, & a film/TV/theater actor.

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