The Ambassador of the Interior Has a Talking to with the Minister of the Cabinet of Vengeance

God started small                     At the first showdown between good and evil       God didn’t come at anyone like a cowboy       God didn’t open with solar flares or asteroids       or mass extinction            or planetary heat death God didn’t outgun anyone               God outmanned them God made man        in the face of the beast And in the face of the beast      God made     —from inside the great and gaping maw         while languishing in the hot damp                           In the face of that great terror          God summoned the smallest— adrenaline        serotonin        hemoglobin        oxytocin        motes of possibility      God started by making— light into land masses      sand into vessels      preservation as civilization   and sometimes   God won