The Silence of Cells Long gone the roar of waterfalls lapping of lake water hiss of jungle rain there is no hiding from the sun life’s web is full of holes threads rot root no longer latches root the bees are gone, their origami clotted with crumbs the song of the humpback whale plays on a loop in a cobwebbed room there are no footprints in the sand only the wind covering, uncovering bones long gone the lion and the antelope the golden eagle, wandering albatross silently cells divide, accumulate a crust of lichen, ooze of algae grows millennium after millennium inches onwards Jenna Plewes