Things Can Be Moving Even When They Seem Not to Be

These motionless motions
Shouldn’t be rare, and they
Might be able to do

Things. Waves of words balance
Against each other so
Precisely, meanings stay

Invisible. Meaning
What? Your species will go
Extinct, with or without

A descendant species.
Extinction is moving
Now in your waves of genes

Like electron demons
In superconducting
Metals. Invisible,

But always there. A heap
Of compacted pages
Under twisted rebar

That were left so compressed
They never quite rotted
Away conceal language

In printed waves and waves,
Invisibly moving
Under sun and shadow,

Year on year, snows and rains,
All ferrying meaning
They never held away.