brooding

The edge of this typhoon
recalls the chaos, all
water and brooding wind,
from which they say an old
god spoke the world we think
we know. I imagine
that first word was nothing
more than an echo some
mortal mistook for an
other before it dawned
on him that he would die
if he had no tale to tell
to pass the time, alone.

poem © Steven Schroeder
image © Mary Ann O'Donnell

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