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“The best evidence we have suggests that early Earth was completely covered by oceans…(but) to link two amino acids together to make a protein, you have to remove water.” And that would have been impossible if the amino acids were immersed in an ocean. Life needed some land—literally a beachhead—to get started.” —geobiologist, Joseph Kirschvink
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though landbound we were once
tiny ships, submarines. we understand the sea.
it undulates within-around us. minds bob on timeswells.
we’re swept by winds that toss and grind us.
not flawlessly designed, we’ve weak
moments in our hulls. tempted,
we run perilously close to rocky spits,
each one adrift looking for a beachhead,
longing for a place that’s still while
everything around us shifts.
like Noah’s searching dove
scanning for a patch of earth
where sea is parted
where past is dead
where present sits
where luck and love
might be restarted
by Jim Culleny
6/19/15
Blink 