Michael Waterson
Selfie
Some fish can recognize their own faces in photos and mirrors … [suggesting] self-awareness may be far more widespread among animals than scientists once thought.
–Betsy Mason, Science News, February 6, 2023
a little blue fish appears
to preen before a mirror
& science gets a byte
a bit of insight to
an inner life
that calls on us to feel
for the lobster plunged
into a boiling bath
to recognize ourselves
in deeper reflection.
Other work by Michael Waterson