Genesis

The first day in the garden, God was
an immigrant who planted gulls

in clouds. Even the smallest
leaflet untangled

solar filaments with prudence
dissimilar to fire.

If culture’s root is care, it matters
the object of care is visible.

Did Adam first teach God the word semilla
or resource extraction?

Did God lack the word for monocrop
when she raised its sugar from raw earth?

Each body has its own small gravity.
The banana pulled the world when it fell.



Reprinted from banana [ ] (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022). All rights reserved.