Ah! love, let us be trueTo one another! for this garbage, which seemsTo go like an end of a diseaseSo large, so filthy, so toxicHas really no end, nor degradation, nor solutionCabbage in the sausage in the garbageGarbage at the side, at the rideI watched the landscape before the garbageI smelled the air before the garbageThe ditch the mount the […]
Poetry
Your Plan?
(After Ryszard Krynicki) You won’t feel the rise in temperatureYou won’t have to think about the extinct animalsYou won’t ponder over the plastic and its problemsYou won’t have to reduce carbon footingYou won’t have to mull over the muck of the riversYou won’t have to think of trashYou will not be reducing greenhouse gasesYou will not be envisaging the melting […]
Stratigraphy
This poem is formatted in a shape resembling a rock formation. It is intended to be read first as in standard English, left to right, top to bottom. Then read again bottom to top, and right to left, as a geologist would read strata. gods the of valley monumental a sustaining I.V. an from drips like justified center solo stacked […]
At the Window
I pray to the Invisible: Please protect usfrom blizzard and hail, from blaze and swelter,from flying insects that sting and swarm,from pestilence and sulfurous miasma,and from the crowded bluster and welter. But let us see the light,through your architectured frame,of sun, of stars, of moon, of clouds, of dappled leaves, of shimmering creek,and all your gentle creatures without names. And […]
Any Time Spent
Any time spentNot making babies.Or not making money. Any time spentNot tilling the soil.Or not dancing the floor. Any time spentNot watching the sunset.Or watching the sunset. Any time spentNot being outraged.Or being outraged. Any time spentBeing forced to choose.Or regretting your choice. Any time spentHaving no choice.Or lamenting your fate. Any time spentGoing on living.Or giving up.