The spring flaw comes

And reveals the humanity of nature,
And the nature of humanity.

Something hiding under the snow has caused

Platelets in the earth's hard crust to crumble,

And now we see, we're part of the animal kingdom, after all.

We've mistaken our complexion 

For celestial.

We've misappropriated funds from the divine

To overrate our essentiality and our temperament.

But we're dispensable,

Like the wooly mammoth

Or the mountain lion.

And if our DNA may be so tainted,

And if I may be so forward as to suggest,

That discretion is the better part of valor,

And that our animal nature is the better part of our makeup

Than piety, if not the very best.

-jenn