once
a
tribe of
humans wrecks
an ecosystem
knapweed, starlings, and gray squirrels
become the once and forever flora and fauna
graying leas and night skies of wordsworth's pretense sculptured fields before him were true nature
england's wolves all killed?adders mildly poisonous?william never worried a bushmaster, jaguar, bot fly, yellow fever, or vampire bat
had he wandered belize rainforest?tossed a few tots of rum with wallace or jimmy
among rats and sweltering heat of a dockside dive
he would grasp nature's glorious
indifference to
man's whirl in
time's flow
of
flesh