return the pastureland to nature
we ask too much of the cow
given the little we give back
let the predator the herbivore the pollinator
return
let the buffalo roam
O detritus spreader – but no
let the cow provide
the anthropocene is not only importuning
it is invading
there could be in the world
a discourse worldwide
but who speaks first
why does a plant become a tree
the forest is an orchestration
an instrumentation
not a tool
our hunger is as the hunger of the polar bear’s
eating us
more than a threat to an endangered species
we were that
that made you what you are
on a shoal of whales
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times ; at Artvilla.com his publications include
All the Babble of the Souk , Cartoon Molecules and Next Arrivals, collected poems, & Moon selected Audio Textual Poems available at Amazon.com as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae , a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)