Once We Were Fuzzies
Once we were fuzzies
tumblers in the treetops
huddlers in the darkness
then some longtime ago we began
to skulk upon the plain, to take othereggs, babies,
fruits and roots of all sorts; we fuzzies were thefting
fighting, mating, mutating, casting out ever wider circles
then some longtime ago we came upon the greeny briny dancing sea.
And that was a day
when we fuzzies found the primal home
and knew, deep in blood knowledge knew
the sea was a caressing place, a wombing palace
a place to linger longtime, the sea's edge rich in brain foods
bivalve ease, scuttling crab clever, kelp and kelp, fishes at dance.
We fuzzies became
scrabblers on the rocks and scuttlers on the sands
dancers in the waves, incumbent at the blood warm edge
combers between the worlds of wet and dry, salt and sugar
our fuzziness sleeking, growing ornamental, our cousins the lumbering
whales and nimble dolphins sinking into the silken sea in languid devolution.
jimmy shaker writes this
