we are one body

blood and salt and sinew
marsh and mountain

sand and ash
droplet and wave 

cancerous cells live in every human body 
but most are released before creating a disturbance

the impulse to 
dominate, to harm 
lives in every human 
body 

cellular evolution has created within complex organisms an absolute boundary between me and not me

cells can become me, can no longer be  
but in every moment what is not me must be eliminated
what is me goes unexamined

this is how disease happens…. a scrambling between what I call me and what is keeping me alive 

but all matter belongs, if not in me it takes refuge in the soil, in the snaking of foliage or the flutter of tiny translucent insect wings 

our earth body disposes of no one, she gathers every molecule in the atmospheric canopy of her arms