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Natural History
by Sally Long
From Canary Summer 2018
Sally lives close to the North Cornwall coast where the River Camel flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Now here’s an interesting species.
Evolved in Africa,
considered itself the crown of creation,
assumed nothing would take its place.
Believed it ruled the planet,
took the earth for its own,
plundered it,
polluted it,
almost annihilated it.
The only species in history
to bring about its own extinction.
Homo sapiens,
“wise man,”
an interesting species.
© Sally Long