"Paradise (Lost)"
An explosion of fire, smoke
swells from an oil rig:
this artificial island suspended
over water, its fractured legs
bent like a heron's
its head tilted away from heaven
a fall from (dis)grace
Oil spreads like the devil's hands
reaching out for sinners unrepentant
and greedy for sunken treasure
swallowing wahoo and yellowfin
along the way Brown pelicans
bearing the weight
of man's transgressions
The horizons of this deepwater hell
have broken into pieces of a nightmare
that no one can sweep up
not even God
And the sinners who ask for mercy
suffer from amnesia, their memories
evaporate like smoke
vanish into water
They begin to build
another island
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