Keystone Species

What makes a world what it is?

As the bees
as the sea star
the snowshoe hare
aspen
willow––you define

as the saguaro
as the tortoise
as the shark––a world
so thoroughly

that it without
the tiger
you
the coral
the hummingbird
would not
exist

as so many
still
unnamed

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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