it’s amazing how the sun is a soft structure a suiter      how the light returns the next day              how systems flourish      the end of a world is a continuance of another                           how mice digest owls      is a reversal of expectations        how cells gossip withselves               how microbes tangle tiny dramashow for the bat a white nose is a mile-a-minute              how a princess tree is a wind spinner             a leaf is a limb a bad metaphor             how floranauts demand labourfrom horse flies        hummingbirds                      a possum is a friendly neighbour                 is a kind of bee                  a kind bomb           a time bomb           a realtor    a mob                        how one colony is much like anotherhow the wasp trades with the flower              how this meadow is pink or green                 lichens queue fists of wheat        how repetition is a system                       how a stem is a neck craning with seasonal indifference                 how the flowerhead is a vagrant      an intruder        a network of dirthow a system is a verb       a noun        and something gross in between