Everything Is Alive
Studio version
The hands that placed the stones
in the castle wall
were invisible hands
if they were hands at all
Maybe the same hands
that created Bucket
back at the beginning
as a special gift for Flash.
The stones dictated the structure
based on how they fit together
In the case of the castle
this is how they settled
after the whales emerged
from beneath the planet’s crust
Olo was rearranged
every speck of dust
The planet was turned inside out
the castle grew from the plateau
its roots reaching
through the mantle to Olo’s core
Nobody argued
There was a castle
that towered above the cliff
Everyone could see it
That was all that mattered
they couldn’t explain it
any more than they could explain
The glasslike spires
or the crimson plain
or even the edifices
that their own hands
had made
Whales circled the castle
swimming in the air
and casting shadows on the walls
which brought the holograms to life
Everything is alive
the invisible hands
the bucket, the metal sphere
the holograms
everything is alive