The Ultimate Spectrum

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A painter moves a pink skinned pear inside

A still life scene and starts to paint again.

Another painting comes.  Dress up the bride

In black and everything is changed.  If pain

Is introduced in Eden, boredom dies.

Prometheus drags flame to men.  A box

Is opened and Pandora’s evil flies.

A turtle dove is chomped down by God’s fox.

The gods are redesigned by Hindus.  One

Becomes the core-like three.  A Shiva sways

As death, destroyer.  Life’s imploding sun

And universes turn to ice-doomed blaze.

  We dream religions.  Then they disappear.

    The god inside a caveman fire craves fear.

© Phillip Whidden