What’s It Like to be the Earth? by Roly Stimson

If we can't really know

What it's like to be a bat

Close relatives though

We are

How much more impossible to know

What it's like to be

A river

Or the Earth

But that does

Not mean

It is not

Like anything

[Reflections on the thinking of Thomas Nagel (who asked “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” and Gustav Fechner (who postulated that the universe and all parts of it are inwardly alive)]