Specific Densities

Lemurs sing rhythmically,
With beats, as humans do,
And the distance between

These species, filled with songs
And vocalizations
Lacking regular beats

Among intervening
Species, convinces those
Who collect the data,

Rhythmic singing evolved
Independently. Now,
If only one could ask

The lemurs how they feel
About moons and seasons,
Dawns and dusk, then compare

To how, perhaps, gibbons
Or mountain gorillas
Think about those same things,

Maybe they’d grant a sense
Of what rhythmic singing
Does to a body’s mind.

But really, it wouldn’t
Help much. Singing humans
All answer differently,

And every answer comes
Coded in shifting and
Specific densities.