May 1, 2018
Introduction: Nature’s (Human) Nature
It’s July 30, 2017, as I start taking notes for the present introduction to “Nature’s (Human) Nature.” It is December 1, 2017, when I finish. Four months. During this time, […]
May 1, 2018
Forest
That time we were in the forest we felt we had almost reached the forest. Somewhere in the energetic forest we played croquet and somewhere gravel roads moved like slurping […]
May 1, 2018
On Salgado’s “Genesis” / On Disturbance or
the laying down on the earth of the five-fingered silvermailed open hand of the Iguana. Life size. Look. Everything in life turns out to be life- size. These five fingers […]
May 1, 2018
In Everything a Little Remains
after Carlos Drummond de Andrade In everything a little remains. In our factory-farmed eggs, a little pasture remains, one wide enough to cool the pain of the fire-hot […]
May 1, 2018
Song with Sequoia and Australopithecus
Limber pine, marbled godwit, diffuse daisy, stonecrop, I was learning your names— then heard Bennett waking. On today's pajamas he wears dinosaurs. He doesn't know dinosaurs or that pajama is […]
May 1, 2018
Nine Things I Learned about Nature on My Skateboard
1 It’s totally extreme. There’s an old adage … well, it’s not that old, like maybe from the ’90s, that says “go big, or go home.” I usually choose the […]
May 1, 2018
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
I can become human being the light Father makes me fire Mother makes me ice What my father makes me I pour over forests I burn the woods covering the […]
May 1, 2018
Windfall
The fishermen, desperate, poisoned them with a cloudy gasoline so they dropped like apples on the ground one might find below a tree. Except these were birds out of water, […]
May 1, 2018
Parable of a Brief Ceasefire
A man is a man inside a banyan climbing on temple roofs. I feel large banyans climb the walls; whole jungles flee themselves. There are men inside the banyans, men […]
May 1, 2018
Parable of the Groundhog
At the Cut—a prison where cities get lost to time— everyone knows the story of the groundhog. People remember who told them— the damn rodent that could climb. Or at […]
May 1, 2018
From “July”
July 10 New York to Minneapolis to Bemidji, MN Minneapolis Institute of Art: a special exhibit of landscape paintings. On the wall an Edward Hopper quote: "My aim in painting […]
May 1, 2018
Decline in the Adoration of Jack-in-the-Pulpits
Even if the plant kneels to comparative darkness, and its name conjures a frocked man propagandizing at an altar, and its hooded bloom is poisonous if ingested raw, it is […]