"community"

The water falls

and the sunlight floats,

the petals float

and the tree bark stands;

who is to say that we

are the only community?

We do not have to look light-years away

to understand that we

are not

alone in this;

we have the company of the nonhuman and of the barely animate,

we have the company of the ones who understand but don’t judge,

who produce but don’t exploit.