“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage
and unabashed in its cruelty.”
~ Aysha Taryam ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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VIRUS
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Borders, Consequences, Contaminates, Cruelty, Cure, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Earth, Earth Day, Fate, Humanity, Infest, Innocent, Kill, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Obscenity, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Planet, Poetry, Sickness, Unsuspecting, Vaccine, Virus
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“People casually refer to humanity as a virus spreading across the earth. In fact, we do look like some strange kind of bio-film spreading across the landscape. A good metaphor? If the biosphere is our host, we do use it up for our own benefit. We do manipulate it. We alter the flows and fluxes of elements like carbon and nitrogen to benefit ourselves—often at the expense of the biosphere as a whole.” ~ Carl Zimmer