did
god
like life
big bang from
the tiny—virus
bacteria, protozoa
sponges, worms, mollusks, fish, crab, reptile, bird, snake, seal, whale
in a slow motion bubble of geologic time swept forward in human visions
through our sun system, galaxy, and local group to encompass this universe and plethora of parallel universes beyond

for he cannot be our tribe's protector unless human hope gives him
the power to cloak all in the fluff of faith as our dreams swell into enormous futures under baritone promises spake from interstellar dust clouds