Daniel Chonde, Scientist, Beaver

Science explains why the sky is blue, 

why the leaves and the grass and the trees 

are green, how we got to the moon,

how to help the sick recover and bloom.  

It helps everyone do what it is they do,

helps the cell phone ring. If a hospital 

is a living thing, it would be a big lake, 

with fish and frogs, and animals making

their way around. What’s the creature I’d be?  

Why a beaver, of course—who helps build 

the environment.

Danielle Legros Georges

Note: This children’s poem was written after two interviews with Daniel Chonde, MD, PhD.