The Navigational Habits of the Dung Beetle

We think we're so fucking smart
building spaceships to navigate the stars.
Galileo created the telescope
to stare at the Milky Way night,
as did Columbus
rebuking the flat
without aid of
Newton's theories
leading to
celestial navigation's
Octant and Sextant.
Newton
pondering the apple,
studying its flight
discovered a dent,
an anomaly
in the fabric of space and time,
of which he could not
begin to conceive
the gravity of
this species' pontifical
naivety.
The Dung Beetle,
after three hundred million years,
still rolls its heavy payload,
against the pull of our spinning orb,
perfectly straight,
backward no less,
taunting a pompous mankind
while simply gazing,
under a Milky Way night,
for a safe place
to feast!

G. Thomas Edwards is a son, a father, a grandfather, a poet, an artist, a writer, and an outdoorsman who enjoys living in the high Sierra at Lake Tahoe.

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