to see more of them in us
there is implacable will in nature,
but it is a will that builds a whole
by incorporating all that is
into all that is becoming,
a network first of mercurial water and of enduring rock,
water the sculptor, the artist,
the universal trader for life,
rock, the structure of the land,
the bed upon which life finds purchase,
a forest within which every plant and every animal
is somehow its own thing
while simultaneously it is also bound to the other,
the cooperative more than the competitive,
within the evolving corporate,
it is time to invert anthropomorphism,
so that we see less of us in them
and see more of them in us
one Indigenous prayer I use starts "Earth teach me. . ."
and another seeks for us to learn the lessons
"hidden in every leaf and rock,"
we are not the sought-after culmination of it all,
one that has evolved through time,
but we can be the voice that becomes the mirror,
the primordial implacable will
expresses just what creation and life are all about,
may we survive long enough and well enough
to make it so, and to let it be expressed and known,
then maybe we have been worth our salt.
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