Linnaean naming
catalogs ancestry, locates
species, sub of genus
replicate, assemble
molecule to cell to many-celled
to multi-featured
yet competence needn’t require
complexity, consider
coronavirus, or a cancer cell
do you for a moment
believe we are more capable
than they are?
perhaps the only way forward
requires us to concede
that conscious life
resides in every atom
trees, weather, stones, rivers, fire
if all speak, why not listen?
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