today I learn
there are more microbes
inside this body
than my cells
stamped with personal DNA
that I am more biome
than body, that together
we are a fused, walking ecosystem
each one unique
to each body
a fingerprint of life, lives
linked by place and purpose
to this bone temple
just like my spirit
Perhaps I
should stop using me, I, mine
and instead use the imperial we,
us, ours
as we hate to leave anything
out of our equations
adding up to self/selves
Susan Daniels Poetry 
we agree! temple of bones….love it.
ourselves are blushing 🙂 we thank you!
A very satisfying union of biological fact and personal endeavor. We like this as well.
🙂 We are thanking all of you very much! This plural way of speaking is difficult, but fun 🙂
Expanded vision into symbiosis… keep on rolling! And what a journey of words.
Thanks, Nelle. This is what happens when one’s biome listens to NPR, driving home in the car 🙂
“More biome than body.” Yes!!!
Thank you–I loved this, all of the multilayered possibilities of self and various selves unfolding in front of my eyes as I drove home in the car, listening to “As It Happens” on NPR, which inspired this…
“As It Happens.” I know it well. A good Canadian program(me). 🙂
Oh, yes… I love it–will refrain from spelling it, as my mother was Canadian, and have a terrible habit of reverting to QE spelling if I’m not careful.
“God Save The Queen and her fascist regime.”
Long live The Sex Pistols. . . .
All that brilliance, AND a knowledge of good punk? Jeremy, I want to adopt you as a younger brother 🙂
I don’t like using pronouns in poetry -even though I do it. It isn’t because there is no I, though I love to say that, but because I want to find voices for that “biome” you’re talking about.
And the funny thing about that imperial “We” is that “We” never know who “We” are unless “We” ask. Which “We” don’t. But if “We” do how would “We” make ourselves understood or in turn understand, all those non “Wes” “We” want to call “Us”?
Jeremy, I love this, totally love it! Or, should I say the part of “we” that “I” know as “I” loves it–don’t know about the rest of us… This head is starting to buzz with all this thinking, and might just short itself out, thinking of the infinite possibilities opening up in front of it, inside of it, etc.
I am really diggin this
Thanks 🙂
Me, too–thanking the Canadians for inspiring programming 🙂