the earth
twins itself
into him
he splits
into him
and her
brother and father
sister and mother
in an inscripted
garden
they spring two
then four
then sixteen
twinning ad infinitum
each marked
by tribal tattoos
multiplying
until the schizoid
is born
as alone
as a painted egg
a castaway
in its solitude
sterile and clone-able
it consumes virtually