This section details the body of God, placing the sun, moon and stars around His head and the earth beneath His feet. The shape of the earth's surface is formed by God's movements, and not simply because of His will, as the Old Testament version describes it. God creates the atmospheric conditions through the actions of His body spitting, clapping, batting His eyes. As in the rest of the poem, God's physical presence is central to His power of creation. In this section, nature is anthropomorphized, a term that means to give human characteristics to non-human entities.
Pine trees are said to have fingers, oaks have arms, lakes cuddle, and the rivers run.
The creation of humans is approaching and God approves of these human-like traits. His smile creates a rainbow, recognized as a sign of nature's beauty. The intimacy between God and nature is made clear as the rainbow curls like a pet about him. Johnson does away with some of the details of the creation, but he captures a sense of God's power and His excitement about what He is doing. The pace at which God has been creating things has accelerated to a point where He can hardly speak or move His hand quickly enough to keep up with His thoughts.