The Magic of And

Before the embellishments of art,

the piled debris of precedent,

the overhang of historical usage,

in the beginning there was simply

the subject and the verb.

Object came next.

Other functions followed.

Language depicted the world

but still lacked the verbal cue

for imagination to create.

Until and arrived,

uniting here and hereafter,

opening narrative horizons,

allowing a sentence to continue

forever and....