Spinoza’s God Falls
It was everything:
you gave it all
you had because you
couldn’t eat rust.
You’re not saying rust.
You’re not saying buy back
or open—
but a culture
of cruxes is
crucis is
a conservatory.
No one ever says yes in autumn because it’s so
almost abstract, like leaning into a syllogism.
Tell your friends
what you believe, and tell them as rivers run through your little vesicles!
O,
once you were an A, and then you became something new,
a peach,
it was everything.
You gave it all
because time was new.
-- Laura Carter