Convection

How often peripheries
Come to dominate centers—
One of the more neglected

Scriptural proofs-of-concept,
As displayed by the Torah,
The Gospels, and the Qur'an.

The marginal colonies
Of the past millenniums
Rise to colonize the next.

Candidates are everywhere.
Tomorrow’s hegemonies
Percolate in backwaters

Of today’s neglected realms.
Maybe it won’t even be
A human diaspora

Per se, next time. Mutant faiths
Practiced by wired prosthetics
In factories of the mind . . .