by W.Haslam, UK Mind Tom, just stay on the path, watch out for holes now, don’t fall. It’s dangerous out in the wind, that’s why they’ve built that great wall. This mute landscape once rang with gulls, burrows jumped with long–eared beasts, these cliffs, bereft of nests, run down to where the sea otter no … Continue reading Tipping Point Passed

Today as I walked,/ the smell of rain/ was not damp earth, ochre,/ but poison: a soft rising/ of rot and pesticide.

She had a give name...

My dog and I step outside/ to walk on soil the Sun dried./

Any who think trees do not scream/ have not listened to a forest razed.

At first we raised the issue,/ but the people in power were dismissive...

Ocean/ Eruption/ Volcanic/ Coral/ Limestone/ Millennia/ Black sand/ Pink sand/ Lilting/...

In America I learned/ about a starter house,..

Snow clouds pump overhead, turgid mix of low nimbus/ in serious grays ash slate pewter hues...

On a no school snow day / playing ball in the house / I broke a fancy vase ...