The Moya View

Tag: development

  • Before and After the Forklift

    Before and After the Forklift

    Before it was lowered over the broken city grid and became my second houseit was a meadow where the grasses grew tall.I watched the top shell of earthbeing moved and hauled away,saw everything leveled to sand, except a thick, distant forest with a thin stream that bled to the city park—and did not shed a…

  • Extinction

    Extinction

    Gray wolves howl invisible on the granite shorelinewaiting for the sea’s answer-standing tall on the headland,against a wind that allows no trees,signatures the stones with ageless storms—howling to know why this once lush placewhere endless fields of poppy intertwined with pineis now defaced with crops of suburban homes.Above, a falcon startled from its rocky perch…