when i withdraw
look out at my back spreading like the life of a mountain
i’m not sure the bipeds will learn i am here in some way to save them
from surviving only as machine
![herring run at sunrise](http://bmorepoetryblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/herring-run-under-harford-road-300x225.jpg)
In zipcode 21203—turtles have been on earth for a quarter of billion years, schist in herring run for half a billion, and gneiss in herring run for a billion)