Showing posts with label "Eaarth". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Eaarth". Show all posts

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Another poem for Elizabeth May (our first Green Member of Parliament): entitled "Eaarth"*



I'd say (say!) the mustard seed quartered like silt in its own Spirit
                       & breathing us out
  can even arouse the envy of the doughty-petalled with
                        molten roots

  The difference between deity & the dirt, eh?

—Eaarth by name and cause!—and of all the dirty sunrises
                         the tallest, coral-eye
  at each wrist, & so delicate a weaner can now crush her

And what wouldn't leafy signify? such as the fractious being
   of cicatrices
  (of Life) that rails against an endless Morder of instinct
                for flight, pleasance,

and tears by design, too, and knows even to push a Cajun
                root up & out, rum-thirsty!
 And like the leaden-legged full of her incandescent
                                                                     surprises-
               yes! leggy & swollen to the knee-

 it'd be right lamentable to cull out sap just by opening—ha!—
  & deliver the salty most
  beribboned calf of a smile, wet with work, ever to fall
               on a lord's honey seas

Betrayed by a smile, and caring even less for yr fiery bees
  she's any vine, with leaf, a proud valley
              & Cajun tomb
—for likely to be etched is anything mythical, & what's more
               mythical than the tomb?—

                 -Oh! j'ai l'impression que je la connais-
stately dank and eyes as colourful as envy of the molten root
                  below!
  scintillations ah! only the terrible coal keep & that to late atoll greens
                   like to go

Trying to find bears for relief & depressed vines can hold you close
                   to these inedibles
She, this deep One into which stallions retreat like the plain at
                   the northerly most cold there is,

is the indubitability of every crystallitic, and yes! where the feet
  have indubitably turned crystallitic
                   By so much dearer to thee

She's a cascade away from the likes of me, & deepens as heart, who
                  looks for dawn fully,
                  oh! peaty heart,
& lies hot under the woody detritus of several trees-of-heaven!
                 She who puled for thee

*Eaarth is the name environmentalist Bill McKibben gives to the planet we used to call Earth before global warming.