As Cultures Grow More Complex

Parasites link the trophic levels.
They are the specialists’ specialists
In the nested diagrams of life.

They could be half of species, all told.
They could be more. Ezekiel saw them,
God’s angels, the wheels within the wheels,

Way up through the middle of the air.
You will be like this. Your thoughts will be
Such specialists dwelling within us,

Singing loud hosannas to your words.
The essence of existence is coiled,
A superoscillating sine wave

Like the forty-meter long tapeworm
That Jonah truly was in the whale.