God and Nature 2025 #4
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By Madeline Ann Merriman
Dust.
How is it?
That scattered carbon, hydrogen, phosphorous,
nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen,
gather into being?
Entropy detests.
Enthalpy laughs.
Yet God commanded,
and Nature bowed.
God spoke
words.
And oaks grow acorns,
canines birth litters,
turtles lay eggs in granule sand,
arachnid weave crystalline webs,
and cacti bloom beneath the moon,
copperheads slither,
swordfish swish,
fragile monarchs migrate,
junipers drop cones,
honey-bears seek bee-hives
hawks eat mice
cicadas dwell beneath soil.
Because God spoke.
Yet acorns, cacti, junipers,
canines, copperheads, honey-bears
turtles, swordfish, hawks,
arachnids, monarchs, cicadas
breathing being
all return to
scattered
dust.
Madeline Ann Merriman was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. She received her undergraduate degree, a BS in biology and chemistry, from Westmont College, in 2019. Currently, she is pursuing graduate studies in chemistry at Duke University.
Dust.
How is it?
That scattered carbon, hydrogen, phosphorous,
nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen,
gather into being?
Entropy detests.
Enthalpy laughs.
Yet God commanded,
and Nature bowed.
God spoke
words.
And oaks grow acorns,
canines birth litters,
turtles lay eggs in granule sand,
arachnid weave crystalline webs,
and cacti bloom beneath the moon,
copperheads slither,
swordfish swish,
fragile monarchs migrate,
junipers drop cones,
honey-bears seek bee-hives
hawks eat mice
cicadas dwell beneath soil.
Because God spoke.
Yet acorns, cacti, junipers,
canines, copperheads, honey-bears
turtles, swordfish, hawks,
arachnids, monarchs, cicadas
breathing being
all return to
scattered
dust.
Madeline Ann Merriman was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. She received her undergraduate degree, a BS in biology and chemistry, from Westmont College, in 2019. Currently, she is pursuing graduate studies in chemistry at Duke University.