In the collage I made today,

two gorillas

share a knowing

glance as a raft

carries a startled, helpless man

quickly downstream.

Water wildly

churns all around

and they look at each other as

though to say, ” And

they call themselves

the evolved ones?”

                                                                                                                                    JDG

 (With thanks to my friend Betsy Jewell for her comments in the Soul Tending Workshop)