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African Genesis

BARRY D. AMIS

The continent deeps
Shivering.
Sloughs off its old skin
and deeps. Deeps into itself.
Deeps into the life-throb. Time is not
in the clock. Depth is not in the time.
Throes of expiation.
de profundis.
The continent deeps,
pinned down.

Not the oceans,
not the mountains.
The continent.
Wrestling against the natural opposition.
against flux and flow.
Convulsion.
The continent deeps.
Consciousness penetrates,
the old dies.
Purgation.

The continent and sentience.
Seething.
In the crucible.
The will is in the continent.
Continuous agitation. The bitter tasks.
The best will come only after.
The burden and the onus.
Nerve vibration.
moral experience.
Birthing.

The next era.
Up-springing.

Out of the crucible.
The continent and the spirit.
Fructifying. Sweeping in the new
consciousness.
Integrity composes the psyche.
Omniscient benevolence.
The continent deeps.
Saving.

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