There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of
God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them.
Genesis 6:4 (King James Version)
Wearehunger,
armed by it,
born from appetite,
the divineinus
undone by it.
We devoured
barley stems dozing
undergladsun,
pulled from the earth
by tight fists, soil pinned
to spidery roots. Winds,
ofeverysize, burdened
by bird song, cedars,
alive with leaves
asmanyas stars,
emptied—Nothing ends
in us. When tarry skies
awakened,
rain trembled
onourarmsour
backs, this plague
likeconsumption halted.
What emerged from
flood waters surpassed
us—alightsmeared
across every thing. We
a ransom
in its wake.
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