Medication
First they will catalogue the wounds
(this will take what time we have left).
Barrels full of toner, truckloads of paper—
itself the bleached remains of millions
of magnificent creatures slaughtered.
Axe chainsaw tooth claw gun and knife
all tell the same story.
We are numb.
How will we remember
that breath is exchanged among all beings
molecules of air and water flowing
from stoma to lung to gill to lung to lung
the possibility of voice?