Why Not the Poacene

As soon as lives go out,
Life hustles right back in.

Will what’s next resemble
Something equivalent

Or something never been?
Life has to resemble

Life, Aristotle said—
Like from like—but Darwin

Took notes on the grandeur
In how life burns with change.

Look at all those seedlings,
Now that the wildfire’s passed.

Is their forecast forest
Or future waves of grass?