α) Radiation (This Place is a Message)

What am I but an emanation
Of energy better left
Undisturbed, a ruined
Palace calling out to you
In forbidden whispers
Of far-future runes?

β) Bioluminescence, Beloved

In the bathypelagic zone
You find me through subaqueous
Scrying mirrors, the lantern of my antenna—
Lifeforce light—reflecting off
Your diver’s suit, my villiform teeth.
I won’t bite, I lie. But what I mean is:
I need to know you’re real,
A recollection of flesh cradled
Between brittle enamel.

γ) Big Bang/Chicxulub Impactor

In the beginning, we were
The Pillars of Creation, a mythopoetic
Eagle cawing our nebular
Parthenogenesis. In the beginning,
Complementary colors, charged electrons,
We melded into a mecha of
Smoldering essence. The gods
Had to separate us by black-static
Lightning lest we one day
Overthrew them off celestial
Thrones.

δ) White, Wavelength

You would not believe
The luminous creatures
We’ve been since.

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