(for Marianne Moore)
Must too now do disdain, must.
Wild ermine attending on a cliff,
pert foxes; blood still on their
downy jowls, black bears, rex elk
foraging in a shoal of tinderous
pines atop a knoll, sagacious
rodents; gophers, ground squirrels,
and shrews can excruciate too.
Gaia, that total fucking cunt of temperate forests and silly tundras,
must do disdain too, must do.
