may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Tuesday, April 20, 2010

in an age of invisible things

like viruses and volcanic ash
radioactivity and avian flu-
we know via effects what these things can do
We have become the final filter of altered nature
Chopped trees,built houses on Holy Ground
Even bones mutter discontent beneath us
All these young men and their victims sharing graves again.
Now the air carries particulates-remember Chenobyl
where Welsh sheep carried radiation deeply?
Everywhere is cesspool,plastic oceans,detritus,trash
we are becoming what was expelled from us
From expanding universe to closed system
first the thought(invisible)
next the effects(quite tangible
All aircraft grounded while volcanoes sing
We are prisoners on a planet that we are burning
The moon reminds us of distance and of light
There will be no planes in the Sacred Air tonight!

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