“No More Ark”
Bruce Hanna 4.18.20
We are all islands now far enough away so the invisible cannot invade us Sheltered in place Social distancing Physically awkward Unsure, even afraid to touch Most of us cannot imagine how this happened or if it is the new reality? Will it ever end? But as biology grad students we pondered this every afternoon at coffee 50 years ago A time of humans, microbes cockroaches, and plants balanced in symbiotic, and parasitic standoff And the zoo museums — the No More Ark of creatures that roamed free long ago
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