Let us take this pale
infant already struggling
so with this trick called breath
faint heart bare training its rhythms
crumpled pink of
hands weakly clenching and un
clenching let us take this
weak mammal yes and wrap its weakness
in cities and vast machineries
and undulating technology
and thermo-regulated blankets

lest it learn to grow strong
and healthy
and hungry embrace
the hulking splendour
of this too-wild cosmos
Yes let’s.