I riffle through a paper bag as the lights begin to dim my hand contorts to fit its shape bending in the dulling light like an origami octopus but I do not have eight legs
the crinkle of rough paper grates the crumpled air long and equal slices a communion for the holy gathered round in prayer
"For the bag formed us made us bred us from a mixture of gases and sliced us with His loving paper hand For the bag brought us here now Here and now Now and here"
(it remained unaware)
They chanted in a circle and circled in a chant blowing beds of burnt orange in a dance of auburn incense
(it lay lifeless upon the granite counter)
and when the hysteria like the sun began to fade
and when they stopped singing for the day but promised to reconvene the next it did not know.