As We are
just as the mushroom is only the fruiting body of more
mycelium underneath, we are
the fruits of a great web-mind that is the breath
-ing rock we sit on
my Body; a living planet filled
with biomes
of bacteria, fungi, protists;
single-celled or many parts organisms
individual, but one colony-self.
to the germ: do you know i am Living?
do you see my sentience in electric-impulsed
nerves, or the weather;
your environment is musculature, pu ls in g and
flowingthe rivers and floods –
take my nutrients, till my land and deposit new
you procreate, live lives inside me and i am unaware
they see this world as home
i see this colony We as
Me
the greeks called me Gaia
-Colette Stergios