All the World in One Girl

All the World in One Girl

I unroll your DNA as if it were a scroll
and I can start from the present
and read your history in reverse.
There is an innumerable regression of bodies,
some passing beneath the gaze of Lady Liberty,
others strolling through plantations or vineyards.
In runes I see stories of you
clad in falcon feathers
riding at the front of the Asgardreid.
Beneath ancient Rome
you dined on pomegranates.
You are the mother of kings and gods,
You are the spirits of lakes and skies,
You are written into every script,
recorded in clay and stone,
subject of bardic verse and chant.
You are the earth that gave birth to life,
the stars that gave rise to the earth,
the eleven dimensions of space and time;
You exist in all quantum states.
All existence is in your past
and you precede all words.
In the beginning was the potential
of you.

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