Sheffer 6/23 Puzzle

Life loops forward from the womb
odd isn't it to have emerged awed
out of that dark Eden to rise and ebb
as we all do, alas, all that we erect
falls away no matter how jealously
we guard, hate, cordon off, bargain.
It is summer with the heat turned
high sky gray trees darkening their
green leaves and shaking them at
every passing car. How far we have
driven past our welcome. We say
we'll never again and then repeat.
Coyotes stare from Arboretum
azalea shade, crows litter alleyways
beside dumpsters, asphalt fills
potholes and we are filled with mad
anxiety and sad seedless watermelon.
What have we done to chickens' DNA?
We wallow at the shrink's as peaks
lose glacial weight. What we knew
about the water cycle cannot comfort
now it's wrong. So much here to rile
kiwi whips tendrils toward dogwood
all vines lasso, pull, muzzle into and
through relentless and blind as moles.