Tag: deforestation
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Making Lemonade Street
I wrote “Making Lemonade Street” after watching a forest near my neighborhood being cleared for new housing. The poem began as a note on the phrase “the forest in front of the forest”—a doubling that felt like both description and elegy. I wanted to record the moment when the natural and the artificial overlap, when…
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Blasted Oaks in the Snow
The oaks split into shaggy specters.Until it snowed again, they stood. They came, cut them down,limbs yielding to their will, the thinner branches whittled to finely crafted switches,to beat the children who live in the puritanical world.
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The Rainforest Lives With Our Ghosts
It sings of falling water, until the roadcuts a scar. Its earthlives with our ghosts.Trees must bear our names.