When secret places in the forest are crisscrossed full of trails When wild things live in cages and the ocean is bare of whales
When the highest mountains are all paved and the Condor is not saved Will human involvements continue to be waived?
Have you seen? wild horses in the wild prairies of untamed fruit trees a roadless plain from horizon to horizon a MamaBear sitting proud against a Redwood, twins between her knees
Do you know? an undammed river an undiscovered mountain meadow an unpolluted sky an untouched forest
Can you imagine? the Earth just after her birth a damned river freed a truly wild place the Earth in love with humans
Nina Haedrich
This article appears in The Lost Year.
…”the Earth in love with Humans.” Ahhh. Yes, I know a place where humans are summer visitors and the Earth hungers for them to return, briefly, while the days are long and the snow gone.
This poem makes me shiver, and sigh. I had to read it again in July, and will read it again and again, in the future.
Thank you, Nina.