On the first day of the world he raised his hands to the face of god it was a man and a woman rescaled the chain not yet become flesh of the living and that which gives life and in time they became the same and it was as if the waves that struck the beach were the fingers of his wife tenderly touching his face the sea and the sky took on the same color and without a horizon heaven and earth became forever linked though we deny it with the same breath of our understanding.