The Hastily Assembled Angel Falls at the Beginning of the World

Except most things weren’t clouds      everything there Was clouds      the hastily assembled angel Before he knew the word clouds was the last word He heard the other angels shouting as They shoved him      though he after he had fallen Too far to hear them he      saw their mouths mak- ing shapes that were not clouds and when he saw that Thought That’ssomething that isn’t clouds thatshouting After I’ve fallen too far to hear them don’t They knowI’ve fallen too far to hear them now Or are we not together now before He knew the word      in those few minutes the oth- er angels were assembling him      he named The things he saw with words that seemed to fit them Nothing was heavenly a few things were Ocean and hole and monkeyapple he Before the other angels shoved him      had Started combining words      but nobody Would name the things he saw the way he named them And to the other angels all his naming Was noise they shouted      as they shoved him It’s All clouds what difference could it make      to the angel Built to monitor the Earth      from the surface Of  the Earth      what was or wasn’t true in Heaven They shoved him then      they stared and then they shouted After the disappearing figure all The things they suddenly remembered      they had Forgotten to tell him      as they were hammer- ing him together as they hammered him Together and behind them      but above Behind      a pinkish light that was or was- n’t God pulsed      like the heart of  one of  the creatures God hadn’t yet created though the angels Had seen the creatures coming in the waves Then covering the Earth      the angels had Seen them      and didn’t want to be assigned To live with them      and so had voted to Build their own angel but they didn’t ask Permission first instead they built him quick- ly      and as Gabriel asked God      if  this New angel could be sent instead to Earth Fresh      eyes for a fresh world the other angels Shoved him the hastily assembled angel From the cloud and Heaven      he      the hastily Assembled angel could see      farther than The other angels though he couldn’t under- stand what he saw as well      as the other angels Might have      and as he fell he saw their mouths mak- ing shapes he saw the light behind them      pulsing And as he fell he watched the clouds becoming Abstract      as any other angel would From Heaven watch a species go extinct Even as dry land emerged from the waves below him