Do you
sometimes want to wake-up to singularity
we once were?
so compact nobody
needed a bed, or food money -
nobody hiding in the school bathroom
or home alone
pulling open the drawer
where de pills are kept.
For every atom belonging to me as good
Belongs to you. Remember?
There was no Nature. No
them. No tests
to determine if the elephant
grieves her calf or if
the coral reef feels pain. Trashed
oceans don't speak English, Farsi or French;
would that we could wake up to what we were
- when we were ocean and before that
to when sky was earth, and animal were energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not
at all - nothing
before we came to believe humans were so important
before this awful loneliness.
can molecules recall it?
what once was? before anything happened?
No I, no WE, no one. No was
no verb no noun
only a tiny, tiny dot brimming with
is is is is is
All everything home.
Marie Howe