Thursday, May 5, 2016

Memory And Climate Change [Poem by Clara B. Jones]

Evolution And Climate Change

Glacial silences distorted paths of caring
creating icy wilderness.
Like elusive trout cynical of artificial lures
we cast then skillfully retreated into rocky habitats
returning by some weeping urge
toward what we hoped was real.
Seasons cycled memories that changed without our notice
until the stream-bed dried
exposing curves and angles invisible before.

Sentiment buys nothing on the desert.
Ecology has no rule except its own.
Survival is no luxury of choice but function
where chance competes with necessity for life
where ultimate replaces mechanism, ceasing to be a dream
where borders between freedom and wilderness
are preserved in form and silence
where poetry is but a promissory note one is unable to repay.





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