A Deferential Specter of Beginning Life with a Laugh:The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

From out of the waters, onto land….

Each week The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “Wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:

Wordle’s words

A Deferential Specter of Beginning Life with a Laugh

Life began in a bridge,
a grain of a blade, a wisp,
of billowy breath, so thin,
that it peeled off an archaic fin.
Then shouldered red clay, and a gasp!
As new lungs filtered air in.

In a spin, barged on land with new feet,
locked straight, circumspected, reflected:
that Homo Erected seemed sweet!

Randy Mazie

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