The river has begun moving forward again, gulping sand,
shriveled plants, parched rocks, scrapes of plastic waste.

I take a path where "a great flock of birds or of creatures
that looked like birds" walk before flying; where a rabbit
freezes, willing himself invisible, while microbial twilight
creatures hove over the planet, killing as they propagate.

As ancestor after ancestor stoops to give birth, I fill my
lungs and sail over the mountain, drifting where "there
is no such thing as waste."

 

 

a great flock: J. Haines. From, "The Ancestors."
circulatory systems: For example, the Beaufort Gyre is a clockwise wind-
driven circulation in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska, whose curl releases
fresh water into the Arctic Sea.
there is: I. Angus, "Vladimir Vernadsky and The Disruption of the Biosphere."
Climate and Capitalism, June 5, 2018.