Poem Before Pronouns, Thomas Lux
Poem Before Pronouns
No water, lots of glaciers.
There was one birdbut she had no nest.
It got colder.There were neither humans
nor gorillas: too coldto go outside and work.
Finally, things began to change.An onion grew somewhere.
Seeds got invented.Somewhere else, one lizard
walked across a desertand found the other lizard.
There was a blue warmth.There was a blue warmth
and still some things beganto grow fur–as if they knew
it will be cold again.
-Thomas Lux
