The Jungles of Graball-Youcan.
Ecology debunked the jungles’ horrors,
but scientific knowledge was calamitous.
Fecundity indices and biomass parameters
buffed the ruggedness into a mirror
of the biosphere. They pinned to graphs
those poison frogs, those hogs, those bug-eyed traumas
overcome by quivering explorers
thrashing through the bush in centuries past,
who’d blazed a trail for pioneers to prove
the grazer-predator model was in error:
man ate beast and fowl, ate leaf and fruit,
and what he couldn’t eat he felled and burned.
Throughout Graball-Youcan the lurking terrors
claimed their niche, and wilderness returned.
notes
but scientific knowledge was calamitous.
Fecundity indices and biomass parameters
buffed the ruggedness into a mirror
of the biosphere. They pinned to graphs
those poison frogs, those hogs, those bug-eyed traumas
overcome by quivering explorers
thrashing through the bush in centuries past,
who’d blazed a trail for pioneers to prove
the grazer-predator model was in error:
man ate beast and fowl, ate leaf and fruit,
and what he couldn’t eat he felled and burned.
Throughout Graball-Youcan the lurking terrors
claimed their niche, and wilderness returned.
notes