Language & Ecology, 2017
Take the world, its storms and sunrises
Brushed with dust from Alpha Centauri
Or flecked, gray asteroids. Surprise is
This: now and when tells the same story
Snaked and rooted in enterprises
Wrung from the ground. Ripe hope and glory
Spin like fat, lazy fruit. Each buys his
Notion of progress, allegory
Fecund or fetid. Compromise is
Tied with fantasy unpaid in full
View of throttled river or valley
Raked to field. Sift through mounds to re-drill
Purpose from scar or stone. The tally
Scored from rabid evolution: kill
Switch front and focused. Next blind alley
Narrows and chafes. Squint at light distilled
From bent wave through the crack. We rally
Reason, hoard the keeper’s fee until
Loose change rattles like bone.