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A fish goes blblblblblblbl;
A bear doesn’t mind.
The tree says shshshshsh
To the birds—many of whom
We already know.
It is unknown the sound of moss
Or the language of most insects.
And if I said something they understood
If indeed I could—would I be
Myself, or their kin, or rather
An interlocutor like wood?
—
MJB Song is a botanist and poet who resides in California.
The Nature of
Our Times
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