It’s the Comeback of the Outside Will End You

There’ll be no last wildness,
Unless you’re referring
To the idea of wild.

There’ll be a last idea
And a last use for each
Word naming an idea.

What wildness designates
As an idea will go
On and on, past even

Domestication’s end.
There was no contrast back
When everything was wild,

And no beasts specified
Tame or wild distinctions.
Wild is the default mode

Of life on this planet
And domestication
Recent. You were afraid

Of what you weren’t, and then
You mourned its loss. You should
Still be afraid, a bit.