she places her body in the nook of mine 
saying God is never gone 

not silent distant cold or dead not what we make God 
God is and has never not been
passed through death bringing death through us
 
brought death to the subatomic nucleus
of ultimate theory revealing ultimate forgiveness 
a fusion field hovering in the heart of matter 

beargrass plumes on the ascent of going to the sun road 

for dogmatism is what we call mechanical injury 
caused by physical violence but anything is far less 
knowable than we know especially God so break us 
God she says break us into being as you break open 
the fields of flowers on the mountain 

                                                                 ii.4 

Shann Ray | Atomic Theory 432, ii.5
Contents | Mudlark No. 64 (2018)