By Satya Emerick

Genesis:On colonial mindsets, the exploitation of Land, & missionary hubris

By Satya Emerick

God created the Heavens and the Earth. And God created Me: Symmetrical, coherent, And predictable as time. God created My Earth; God created My prize.

Splayed limp in its tracks, Timid beneath armoured thistle barracks, Yet cocky in its clumsy brawn. To conquer, to tame, to domesticate. Burrowing its savage, rugged, and calloused breath in My charitable open arms.

Stomping out ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Until I can see My own reflection in the skinned and polished bones of its hills: Mortal and simple. H

Photography by Juliette Fredericks