Maker's Mark

And they that know not say, “Why does God not speak to us? Why does a sign not come to us?”
--Holy Quran, 2:118




Signs? You can find billboards on any freeway:
for or ag’in, take your pick.
Speeches are a dime a dozen—this is an election year.
Still, people are searching.

Perhaps we’ll find it under the Antarctic ice, God’s thumbprint
labyrinth of ridges taller than mountains and spanning a continent.

Or as our drifting galaxy collides and slides through Andromeda,
neat spirals snagged on hooks of gravity, dragged and tangled

viewed from outside and angled just right. Or hidden in the intricate
imbricate interior of mitochondria. In the sparks that dance

inside your closed eyelids and on the whorled fingertips pressed on clay
by the potter at her wheel. God’s thumb rested here, and here

everywhere.

--for Poefusion. Image courtesy of Andrew and the Te Papa Museum

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