HAITI COLLAGE
Turn away from the idea of Earth destruction
Earthquakes are Earth yawning
She stretches Herself after rest periods
Simply shifts position
Don't women change their minds once in a while:
Too bad about the poor people who don't have much choice
All the good farming land had been scoffed up
They suffer more than the rest of us.
We are not the center of the Universe
We are subjects of Earth Mother
Simply one species among many
What makes us so important?
We choose where we live,
Live on a fault line,
It's your fault.
An art supply catalog
Displayed over a hundred
Strips of color tones and names
I reposition these to imitate layers of rock
That have decided to let go
Long, latent strata
In the chaos of new structure
Releases her tensions
Metamorphosis happens
We are only one small part of nature.
What newspapers call disasters
Are not disasters.
They are simply earth Mother
Doing her thing.
Manorville, New York
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
