Here's a poem this morning
It is all inchoate grasping & conclusion
Freezes wooden, lifeless, Daphne in arrested
Motion, a laurel swaying soft over the bank
Of the creek, footfall pattering into susurrus
& birdsong, the occasional tumble of stone
Under gathered current. Then we forget.
We think of a place
As only a place, fixed, extra-dynamic
hints of change nominally seasonal.
A thumbprint holds a thousand deaths.
Our microscopic lives
Humming with the fine filament of preposterous
Hopes. To matter. We matter. We are & so
We should. The creek coughs where slow ice
Jigged its curvature. A mountain sloughs ten feet
Of modest elevation. Every leaf desiccates & lets go.
We are layer upon layer upon layer
Of extinction & gradual erasure, & nowhere, nowhere do
We look down to notice.
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