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This poetry collection addresses the tangled issues of war, colonization, genocide, and the war on earth itself, relating them to the arbitrary notion of land “ownership.”
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Sound recording of spoken word version After Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Don’t Push the Button America” Dear AIPlease run the peace programthe world peace programstop the war programI know you are monitoring the situationI know you understand someof what we are sayingI know our phones are out on the streetsworldwideYou offer me photosprofessional photos of women…
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Heart of Flesh Literary Journal published my (quite Buddhist) riff off TS Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday;” a twist on the binding of Issac; and a parallel between of Noah’s sea level rise and modern scientists’ prophesies, in poems called, respectively, “Ash Wednesday;” “Anticipating the Akedah Moment;” and “What a Fragile Earth it is without a God./What…
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The Youth Guest Editorial Board of Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects invites you to submit for the upcoming Aug/Sep 2020 issue crafted by young people. We welcome submissions of proposals or final content that aligns with this issue’s theme, which orients around the Seven Generations Exercise of the Work That Reconnects.…
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“A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.” —Neils Bohr One million matters to humans only because we have ten fingers, usually, and so invented base ten and so thrill each time the odometer spills like so much oil into the river: one at a time 9,9,9,9,9, droop, droop, droop, to all…
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“Missing in action” is a hybrid creative nonfiction/poem about douc langurs, primates of Southeast Asia, and how they survived extinction, so far, by hiding in the jungle like, um, guerrillas. The poem was just published in Miracle Monocle: https://louisville.edu/miraclemonocle/issue-12/karina-lutz Narrow your computer screen for best formatting, or read on a reader or tablet. The online photo…
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Again, we welcome your submissions of poetry to Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects on the themes evoked by Joanna Macy and colleagues’ Work That Reconnects: gratitude for Earth and the ecological/social justice movement, The Great Turning, honoring our pain for the world, deep time (thinking like a mountain) or the Fourth…
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The second issue of Deep Times is out at the Work that Reconnects Network website. You’ll find some lovely poems for the Great Turning, including my “Welcome to the Anthropocene, era of errors” on p. 41.
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“Little Green Bee” was published today on The RavensPerch: here Same website published one of my favorites: “The Path of the bee”: here And “Locus of control”: here And a little Buddhist whiff in “Canoe”: here
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Both camps, those who see only one god, far above, and those who see only earth, project their particular fragility and wrath. For atheist ecologists earth’s movements are just facts of physics and all its life is as tenuous as a hypothesis; nothing like the world of Noah, as he mourned over the side of…