From “Anthem: the possibility of evolution or the evolution of possibility” by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Human evolution began in this corner of the earth,
our ancestors left their dust as chromosomes
in each of us, they made a home,
and hominids stood up as humans and walked,
languages fell out of our mouths and talked, walked their way
into and out of landscapes, mindscapes. We walk in words,
creating as we need:
we stand shadow-thin
and then
we chase the horizon disappearing
until
we reappear again.
marks in the sand 