THE REWILDING
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These humans –
If we’d just arrived sooner
Before lakes turned to dust
Skies blazed and
Cities fell in rains of glass and concrete.
These humans –
Who choked the stars and gutted mountains
Poisoned seas
Built their monoliths by
Ripping entrails from the earth.
These humans –
Who silenced birds
Razed entire continents
Extinguished animal timelines with
Carnivorous greed.
Come, let us burn the last of their records
Shred their final shards of DNA
Back into constituent base pairs
Efface the memory of
an evolutionary experiment gone far wrong
Let us reset the clock of life
To once more green the land
Purify the waters
Rewild the world
Until no trace remains of
These humans –
Hydrangea Moment
She told us
she loved hydrangeas
soft, pastel billowings --
crisp ruffled balloons, stout with air
held aloft by
dark scaffolds, the purple scents
of florets,
next to Dunain’s kitchen
garden – or humped beneath
white winter
snows.
Seasons came, and passed,
like people
but we always clung,
as the first frail scent of
spring
to her hands,
petals, ourselves,
and always young
in her view,
unchanging
as the love in her
eyes.