Odds Are the Supernatural Will

Every animal steers
With the equipment carved
Out of its ancestors.

You can’t ask a creature
To understand the world
As another creature.

Nothing among humans
Can be impersonal.
People are all persons

Surviving by persons,
As cooperating
And contesting persons.

That world is personal,
Taken personally,
Never mind the world’s not

Personal or human
In the least. But you can
Work around this problem.

People notice how good
And awful things happen
Beyond personal strengths,

How the rare can’t be made
To happen, but happens
Sometimes effortlessly,

They imagine persons,
Invisible persons,
Capricious persons,

But with certain patterns
To their personal quirks.
Odds get called gods. It works.