
GALAPAGOS
Laid bare
Like a woman desnuda
Painted by all the famous men
Matisse Picasso Degas
Contemporaries of Darwin
Discovering, uncovering
Chasing curiosity to the brink of madness
Lava floes, salt water, crustaceans and those little specialized finches
These are like bread not things which man can live alone
Not things which soothe the restless soul
Mother, you are creator of all the inhabitants of this land
Your violent explosions birth soft black earth
Placenta moving to the sea
Oh Mother! Your fertile nakedness births every island
Transforms and adapts every creature
Lest death make him a mockery
And like the poets and painters before me my words
Cannot form sentences so sublime as the curiosity
That your being ignites in my soul