Farmer

The greatest change the planet
Has undergone since at least
The start of the ice ages
And possibly since the fall
Of the Chicxulub killer
That murdered the dinosaurs,
Has been domestication.

We are products of this fact—
Words, languages, are products
As well as early agents
Of this swift transformation
Converting the Earth’s surface
And atmosphere and oceans
Into one organism.

Gaia, domesticated
Concept of a farming tongue,
Didn’t exist before us,
But she’s growing up fast now.
You won’t be happy with her
Perhaps, in her rebellion,
But she’s young. She will be one.