1. In the beginning, there was nothing but a stag, dreaming of a river.

2. Beside that river grew a red flower. The flower dropped seeds and a great ocean of poppies flooded the riverbanks.

3. The heavy pollen from the flowers woke the stag from his slumber. When he awoke, he stood in dark space, empty and blacker than a crow's feathers.

4. When the stag bellowed, the sound ripped a hole in the blackness and he stepped through the tear into his dream.

5. At the top of a mountain, his step knocked loose a boulder which rolled over the river, and, sent flying, landed with a crash that cracked it in half.

6. The flowers ate the stone, and the stone looked like four hands offering up the world.

7. The stag ate the flowers and the black centers of the poppies looked like a crow's feathers.

8. The crows ate the stag.

9. The stag looked like a forest made of ivory branches.

10. By the river, there were nothing but poppies and two stones with four hands offering up the world to a forest made of ivory branches, dreaming of a stag.




I have been reading Zachary Schomburg's "The Man Suit" and wanted to try using a numbered list, as well