Absent Nature

On crane wings, nature is a farce
each thrush, each beat, each dawn
dances not natural, not unnatural
these generalities, didactic soul conceits
pretend to carry water 
when it's the earth's great mass
and the contours rivers carve
who astonish watchful eyes

Each persona, neither mothered
nor fathered, tremors and roars
at the behest of necessity and chance
and this concatenation before 
another death

Don't call it nature
even if that is in your nature
nature is a human creation
and humans are a creation creation
leveled best by circumstance

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