Eden of the shore, vasectomy of the heavens, ambiguity of prayer. the Vergeof Consciousness, plurality, density, the “laws of motion” and the “lawsof thermodynamics” and the laws of any given state. the one rule of Edenand the cuckold god. the dawn “Crows” the night “Falls” the ocean“Waves”—everything is animate to our animate brains, perambulatingover the surface of an earth which will kill us. the fetid gasses of heavenswirl and break on heaven’s inhospitable shores. I would be as a pigeon let loosefrom this filthy Ark, flying over Oklahoma on a Sunday in the great flock ofmolecules above that spangled sky of my country. the “Goldilocks Hypothesis” theHubble Space Telescope, the little robot on mars. the nautelis, the squid,the dinner-plate sized eye of a blue whale, the cables that run the wholelength of the ocean floor, fiber-optic amygdala of the 21st century, there are stilllions that roam the savannah, there are still taxis in New York. there is stilloil underneath the Arctic, there are still tiny lichens responding to environmentalstimuli on the green-grey rolling tundra. a prayer for all the lichens onthe tundra. a prayer for every nerve-cell & basal ganglia currently in pain.a prayer for the hydrocarbons on Neptune, a prayer for a handful of dust,what is the neuro chemistry of prayer. the neurochemistry of desire that impels lifeto do its fixed-action-patterns to sustain itself. make an egg. let the sunlight onyr skin. seek warmth. build spaceships. the sugars are in the apple.the instructions for making the sugars are encoded in the apples genes.the location of the taste of sweetness is on the tongue as we are in the world,bio-region, airborne, master-of-all, split the atom, spit out the seed—