Practice Art of Seeing
Practice the Art of Seeing
1.
The growth of America
movement of populations
prosperities illusion
intoxication
We are under the same law
rocks, plants, everyman
only long roots of consumption
rates of consumption
Need to slow down quite a bit
to witness all these changes
the chrysalis of a moth
the book of nature
Marginal notes and references
genial ground underfoot
a moment of sympathy
a congregation
Quietness holds a power
sees fertility and depth
human life and character
room for smaller sound
Inexhaustable storehouse
moth cocoon and feeding snakes
a pleasure in minute things
a conservation
2.
Practice the art of seeing
breaking of rock into soil
grand due to its resource
drama of wild bees
Must take risks of being stony
hold onto land while it heals
build homes near every crop
stop mass production
Scour trees around your home
multiple times until bare
winter birds will find a home
a place to hide seed
Burin Petral Greyback Fern
wingspan of the Albatross
one hundred thousand bleached bones
adorn rich man’s plate
Land always engulfed by flame
funnels of thick greyish smoke
oily residue on land
a dangerous art
Here refining their bleaching
oil residue toxic fumes
so long without any care
we create these hells
3.
Time before pushing nature
further and further away
there had to be at least one
who did not agree
Passenger pigeon would feed
a poor family for a month
biblical bird of beauty
no longer exists
Certain places empty sky
no more sound of morning wings
songs no longer lead seasons
nests built with fresh twigs
Imagine thoughts of the last
Passenger Pigeon in flight
looking for a flock now gone
or for its lost mate
Metaphor of creation
move towards great creation
a constantly varied task
happens to be now
Look outside into nature
seasonal teas create
a terminal bud of growth
to live to create
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