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EVEN IN THE TIME OF THE DEATH OF NATURE

Even in the time of the death of nature,

little green pointy things ought to come up in March, death nature death nature deat

dotting the dark uncovered earth like alien talismans.

Male and female geese should honk obstreporously

in the middle of the creek where their goslings stir

when humans on horseback appear out of the trough of trees.

Streamlets should run through last year's leaves, death nature death nature death nature

sparkling toward the Skippack as if carbonated,

carrying off the last remains of the snows that fell

when winter would have happened if it had not ended.

The old fields all have sprouted roofs and curbs,

while two-lane roads strain to gain additional lanes,

death nature death nature death and the remaining wildlife squeezes into the ghettos

along the last remaining cover in the watersheds.

Even in the time of the death of nature,

horses on the bridle paths ought to drop their manure.

Men should want women more than ever, and vice versa,

celebrating what they once might have had between them

in what they once might have thought their season. death nature death nature death na

They should rudely dance in remembrance of all,

reminded by remnants, the pastiche of the completed.

Someone should say, in spite of it, a nature should never die,

Even in the time of the death of nature.

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We want nature to be what we say it is but it won't be.

Nevertheless, we ought to say what we say anyway,

even as we contemplate its end beyond end.

Outrageous circumstance beckons outrageous statement.

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