like wild animals, I am happy hiding
the artificial frightens my being —
but it is time to fight for the earth
scrambled blackout poetry created from Rafe Martin, Birdwing, 2005
humans
CBT
but the science bears out
my catastrophic thinking
WILD’ness
WILD
is beautiful
wild is free —
wilderness is not
an empty canvas
for Man to do
what he will —
wilderness is
an already full canvas
painted by God
It’s staggering
Evolution: that last step was a doozy!
Fresh air & birdsong
An open window is good company, like the burning candle of Lichtenberg.
“Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
Flux capacity
Nature and wildlife
are gradually vanishing
like in the photograph
from Back to the Future —
our future is vanishing too
but we have no hundred
and thirty horsepower
gas-fired time machine
to go back and fix it.
Illusions
Religion is faith in anything other than ourselves.
Sky was the limit
“When men grow wings, they will be worse thieves than ever.”
“Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
¡Peligro!
Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.
Understanding death
I read an article stating that cats don’t understand death the way humans do, so they don’t fear it like we do — I think they understand better than
Discomforts
We are creatures trapped in culture.
Man vs Nature
Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience.
Incorporated
sunshine has no budget
the sea no red tape
trees do not license
themselves to the countryside
bees don’t invoice the flowers
there is no committee of oceans
and i’ve never seen a bird
take out nest owner’s insurance