illustrator: Morten Morland
who is afraid to let in the outsiders ? (different species)
Ecosystems
by Sarah Dickenson Snyder
A googly-eyed rock goby
is a fish that lives
in small pools nestled
in rocks near the breach
of waves––little worlds
contained, protected.
Do they wish to leave
their measured realm
so close to an infinite sea?
Do they know how much
spins outside their boundary?
How much will we never know
about what lives outside of us.
I have been with him
for thirty years––
we swirl––
the two of us
in a hot tub,
untrembling, a billion trillion
specks of light beyond our reach.
“Ecosystems” by Sarah Dickenson Snyder from Notes from A Nomad. © Finishing Line Press, 2017.
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