IF THE OCEAN

IF THE OCEAN

if the ocean
is anything to go by

abundance
of life forms can
be no garden
of Eden

that sincere English gentleman
categorizing beaks, making
all the measurements

seeing a big picture no one
had previously seen
purpose working
   across a timescale unimaginable

dead on lucid
the mind evolved to see this
peering into the inexorable
mind and
     heart of life

throwing all those arbitrary
constellations into an
extremity of quandry

playing havoc with all our
tales and fables,  deepest
metaphors of design