Countless days and nights on Mercury, Mars and the Blue Planet,
Countless winters, springs and summers.
Sun cycles.
Flips of magnetic field.
Moon tides on planet rock and gas and on the mobile waters of Earth.
Life's chemistry tuned into the rhythms of earth and Moon.
Producer days of plants, consumer nights.
Circadian dips and rises of body temperature, hormones.
Moon rhythms bringing forth new life.
Life created new rhythms.
The quiet tides of air flowing in and out of lungs.
Heartbeats: the high trill of mouse, slow calm of elephant.
Pulse felt in veins pressed on bone.
Fin strokes, wing beats, limbs in a gallop, slinky undulations.
Male thrusts.
Blinks of an eye.
The dark flickering of a trillion, trillion cilia along inner tracts.
Waves passing through brain.
Dream sleep, deep sleep.
Life took rhythm, created language.
Stroking hands speak, cat's purr answers.
Rocked infant slips into sleep.
Playground children chant and skip.
Feet dance to drumbeats
... or blood boils.
Machine man stands legs akimbo,
ears defended,
Power saw between vibrating hands.
Isolated.
