Spark

So with 7 billion souls
in the rear view mirror
what happens to the population
of angels?

Or how about tuna? Or tigers. And corn.
Now there are 14 billion grasping hands
(minus a couple) with 70 billion fingers
(counting the thumbs) so how many plots
need digging when we finish
the last bit of breath and toast
before this life spark that comes from

where does it come from, again?
that spark - was it pulsing in some earthworm
tunneling rich loam in support of a french fry?

I haven't crumbled moist soil between my fingers
for years we haven't played in mud
preferring starry hotels to dirty hands
and the drive-up window to ninety nights
waiting for harvest. We let others dig for us
out of sight, pulling the spark from land
without putting it back, much
but that still doesn't answer where extra angels come from;
haven't heard from mine, at least
I should try digging, maybe
they're stretched thin, covering so many people.

Or maybe there's an asteroid where they grow, somewhere
in the heavens there's a crop waiting for the spark
to keep growing fingers instead of fins
but when I was ten and already falling
away from the church in part because I knew
contrary to what I was told, dogs *do* have souls,
don't they have guardians, too?
So maybe we raided their angel supply
which explains what happened to the last Javanese rhino
and all the elephants.