Beginning

In the beginning,
a canvas stretched
tighter,
tighter,
tighter,
until one patch caught fire and
burned,
burned,
burned,
into a trail of stars,
into a scattering of worlds,
into seeds of life that
grew,
grew,
grew,
becoming me,
becoming you,
becoming the beginning
of what comes next.

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A version of this poem first appeared on Bluesky. Whispered into the acoustic sensors of the sleeping dreaming android, it prompted the electric sheep to generate one more tomorrow…