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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.
We understand the sea,
it undulates within-around us.
Minds bob on timeswells,
are swept by winds that toss
and grind us
We’re not
flawlessly designed.
We have breaches
in our hulls.
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 dove,
looking for a patch of earth
where seas are parted
where past is dead
where present sits
where luck and love
now may be started
by Jim Culleny
6/19/15
