one in a series

ν= s/t (velocity is equal to displacement over time)

I will try to speak to you
in a language you understand. Contrary
to my claims, I am not
quite a monolinguist, yet here
in the first crowd of Brazilians
and scientists, who would understand
my appeals of miigwitch, niij?

Now, I will try to talk upon
The subject of rapidity, of cells
splitting too soon, the confusion of biology
in bodies never perfect. I am trying
to maintain that a heron is a bird
not a gathering of mercury in its
fatty breast, nor a blurring blue on
once staid marsh bank.

Yet my mind wavers on classification
genus, species, there is always
a reduction to parts and colors.
Stop.