THE WORLD IS WAITING
To be shaping again, model
And tool, craft of culture,
How we go on.
- Gary Snyder (“Axe Handles”)
The world is waiting for our next move,
anticipating the evolution we still trust
we will survive. The ospreys are back –
looking for a place to live since burning
the power poles down with their first wet nest,
since sycamores were swapped for progress,
since the Terminus dances washed away
in the Flood of ’55 – always looking
for a good high home near all-year water.
A good sign – gone thirty winters, maybe
shot with something other than my Canon,
– same aerodynamics of a ten-inch bass
in black and white, safe with Cedric Wright’s
photographs, a gift from high school, safe
on the bookshelves of lost memories. Again
and again, we learn the hard way, the pattern…
not far off with each tool, each new technology
for a world ready to adapt with or without us.
Rain: .32"