“It is clear that inanimate bodies reach their end … by intention
… therefore, there is… an intelligent personal being by whom everything in
nature is ordered to its end.” – derived from from Summa Theologiae
and Summa Contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas
The Sparrows of God’s Intent
The moon is hitched to the earth
by a divine syllable.
Propelled by god’s word
it orbits inside the O of Om
and proceeds in the syntax of Zeus
reflecting the lingo of the Lord as ordered,
while Tsunami, jarred by the jargon
of Neptune, is formed by one of his trembling faults
and tends landward on the tip of His trident
to rake seaside towns from landscapes
as if Neptune intended pointless revenge
for the sin of the kin of Ulysses,
who was nothing but a marionette of God
at the time he blinded his son, Cyclops,
while, Tornado, warrior wind, slung trucks
down a prairie interstate at the wish of Wotan
who, just last Wednesday
(whimsically and coincidentally)
issued what He called
“a surprise low pressure edict”
to an Oklahoma town “for the hell of it,”
which He legitimized by spontaneous invention
of a peculiar law he called ‘The Covenant of
Diminishing Returns”
—the global version of which has worried
all sapient breathers since Adam bit the dust;
Adam, he who came, and, with Eve his wife,
by the claws of evil curiosity, went.
In this way Aquinas helped in transforming
billowing mind into a cage for the
sparrows of God’s intent.
Now, is that all clear?—
by Jim Culleny, 5/17/11
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