Random poem

let the colonial borders be seen for the pretensions that they are

i hereby honour what the flow of water teaches us

the beauty of enough, the path of peace to be savoured

before the extremes of drought and flood overwhelm the careless

water is a sacred bond, embedded in our plump, moist cells

in our breaths that transpire to return to the clouds that gave us life

      through rain

in the rivers & aquifers that we & our neighbours drink

in the oceans that our foremothers came from

a watershed teaches not only humbleness but climate fluency

the languages we need to interpret the sea’s rising voice

water connects us to salmon & cedar, whales & workers

its currents bearing the plastic from our fridges & closets

a gyre of karma recirculates, burgeoning body burden

i hereby invoke fluid wisdom to guide us through the toxic muck

i will apprentice myself to creeks & tributaries, groundwater & glaciers

listen for the salty pulse within, the blood that recognizes marine ancestry

in its chemical composition & intuitive pull

i will learn through immersion, flotation & transformation

as water expands & contracts, i will fit myself to its ever-changing

     dimensions

molecular & spectacular, water will return what we give it, be that

arrogance & poison, reverence & light, ambivalence & respect

let our societies be revived as watersheds

 

 

 

because i am part of the problem i can also become part of the solution

although i am part of the problem i can also become part of the solution

where i am part of the problem i need to be part of the solution

while i am part of the problem i can also be part of the solution

one part silt one part clear running water one part blood love sweat

not tar but tears, e inserts a listening, witnessing, quickening eye

broken but rebinding, token but reminding, vocal buck unwinding

the machine’s gears rust in rain, moss & lichen slowly creep life back

the rate of reclamation is humble while the rate of destruction blasts fast

because we are part of the problem we can also become part of the

     solution

 

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