We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d . . . We two, how long we were fool’d, . Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes, . We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return, . We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark, . We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks, . We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side, . We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any, . We are two fishes swimming in the sea together, . We share what the locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings, . We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals, . We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down, . We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbit and stellar, we are as two comets, . We prowl fang’d and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey, . We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead, . We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other, . We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious, . We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe, . We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two, . We have voided all but freedom and all our own joy. . —Walt Whitman (1819-1892) . . Max was taking a cooling dirt bath this morning, @forestparkzoo while Fergie munched some grass. . . #morningwalk #poem #camels #forestparkzoo #waltwhitman #waltwhitmanpoem #coolingoff #camelsofig #wearenature #dirtbath #camelsoninstagram (at ZOO in Forest Park and Education Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm_v-cgAfBp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16bske17gc18u