Tell me about the future

without telling me it's impossible—

Tell me about soft green that emerges
in between burned roots and branches,

and of the slow sorting of stones, 
the choosing of what withstood the worst.

Tell of the even slower: return of movement
in the outer reaches of air,  in hollows

opening again to rainwater. Patient schools
of dinosaur shrimp, harboring their cysts. 

Red bark beetles flat as guitar picks 
coming out of dehyrdation. At the very 

bottom of the Antarctic sea, glass 
sponges undulate, though they 

might not even remember when 
they last ate, 15.000 years ago. 

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