After the birds and mammals lost their speech (the serpent's tongue having already turned to ash) and Heaven swayed and fell to within...

Eve lay down and trembled. Her belly grew fat like the moon. Her womb conspired murder. Cain was gloomy at heart. Abel and his animals...

On the seventh day God came down, dug earth deep and wide, buried Adam in the belly of the planet. From his grave came flowers and fruit...

Lord, I have seen the inner workings of man and I am afraid. Poor and pathetic: he is corrupted from the start, living in a blasted...

A storm wind comes from the hidden north filling my mouth, my lungs, with dust ...