i waded not too deep
the shark chomped
the red tide went
a motion of colluding
orbs
but one event
no law imposed
six months later
the leg remaining
……….cottonmouth
the swamp
mere chance
nothing determined
in yellowstone the day
grizzly snatched
my writing arm
………..trophy
of his prey
yet i make no
………..inferences
………,.generalizations
draw no conclusions
i will not prejudice nature’s song
nor suspect the bluejay
that arrives in spring with
………..pterodactylus
except to conclude
………..they include
humbly
me
……………………animalia
……………………chordata
……………………fossil stone
i subsume myself
no crutch of hierarchy or privilege i lean on:
in ever cosmic entropy blends
my speck
roiling, romping, mixing
a speck cloud
one in many specks
…………mongrelizing
…………churning
…………expanding
…………democracy
including all
blowing all
knowing, feeling, absorbing
all specks
in
our
speck
of
time:
all flora and fauna
one peer dust
mortally
equal
we
i foreswearing all
…………bigotry
…………forms
…………categories
…………prejudices
…………centrisms
closing off nothing
and no speck
in the blessed assurance that
………….tomorrow Ezra
a new crawl is a new crawl.