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mangroves cradling coasts anew, hurricanes
to cry safely in their arms
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black pines in Miyagi, standing sentinel
along Tohoku shore, braced against tsunami roar
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Wangari Maathai, her hands, mind, life
to the task, spreading green over African sands
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Elion in the Kubuqi, planting a Great Green Wall
against barbaric sands
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Yellowstone to Yukon, a wildlife corridor, step by step
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and in Thailand, minding fields of rice, the Duck Master
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Aye, Calypso! vessel for explorers of the sea
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and before you, Kon Tiki, and before that
understories, underscoring works wrought long ago
lessons left in stone, graffiti in Tasili, in Peterborough, in Brazil
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be humbled: termite cities more eternal than Rome, and
Mediterranean empire of ants, and aspen, many trunks, one
being extending tens of thousands of years, all clear
and present, persistently declaring
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put your own house in order, as the Sage said; and
clean and restore the clamourous rampage of microbiome
in the gut, as below, so above.
Image by Tanuj Handa from pixabay.com ‘Diya’
Prairiepomes 