This far down the strata seem empty,
No large fossils, no remnants of culture,
Just layers of sedimentary affirmations,
Masses of single-cell precursors,
Ancestors of enlightened life.
Tell me geologists, you biologists
Does simple mean insignificant?
Do you discard these most basic layers?
Do you shame a mountain for its minerals?
Or abash the primate for the eukaryote?
Many impetuous actions have I taken
Many banal prose have I regurgitated
Many fatuous myths have I held dear
Each an organelle of a higher function
Exposed by the unforeseen tectonic event.
-T. Weeks
(A response to “For Him I Sing”)
Life Immense 