and there was light

On The Seventh Day
....
On the third day God said
Let there be light. And
on the fourth and fifth
(his wife off visiting his mother)
When she returned there was only
the sixth day left. The light
was so blinding, so dazzling
God had to stretch and stretch the sky to hold it
and the sky took up all the room--
it was bigger than anything
even God could imagine.
Quick, his wife said,
make something to stand on!
God cried, Let there be earth!
and a thin line of soil
nudged against the sky like a run-over snake
bearing all the blue in the world on its back.
...

Lorna Crozier