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- A NEW BEGINNING
River flows,
Centuries known.
Red horsehair plumes
Luxurious cascades of scarlet blossom.
Grabbing,
Cramming the monsoon winds.
Puzzles,
Scarce indeed all living creatures,
Vultures would starve.
Constant wind.
Thinness of air, head may ache.
Mules labour as
Rivers writhe away
Like silvery snakes.
Rock here crumbles.
A hundred million years.
A few decades.
Explanation, deduced, disputed
Waters diverted.
Great cliffs crumpled
on the site of the ancient sea.
Highest, newest, still moving inconceivably-
That simple!
Multitudinous complement of inhabitants
Conspicuous and wild.
Intelligence, skills particular of humanity could not construct a device
And change.
An infant growing in the womb,
The globe.
Grasslands bake into desert
Adapt and survive
Fail and disappear.