Deep Forest Ecology

You’ve thought it before.
You think it again—
Humans are or are
Becoming the woods,
The dark forest now.

For now, the trees still
Far outnumber counts
Of squatty bipeds,
But numbers aren’t all.
Connections matter.

The underground nets
That sustain the woods
Are tearing even
As humans weave air
Into thought fungi.

What makes a forest dark
Is the density,
The parallel weave,
And human signals
Keep growing denser.

The dream’s hard to flee.
Other animals
And even the trees
Thrive only thriving
Inside of that dream.

If the dream eats you,
If it feeds on you,
If it cuts you down,
You’re going under,
You’ll be torn to shreds.

Adapt, adapt fast
Remaining creatures.
The ecology
Of the human woods
Is your forest now.