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Hymn For A Missing Forest

from Dust Jacket by Joel P West

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The desert is lush
It’s raining here
In California

The earth’s brittle crust
Is dressed in green
Southwestern flora

I suppose that what grows
Has always been there
Underneath us

I’m bound up inside
The skylight taps
A dripping heartbeat

And up to my right
There’s a light
And it reminds me

We have to adjust
The earth is moving
All around us

Our flesh is made up
Of cell and atom
That came before us

Don’t hold me to damage I have done here
Or words I’ve said this past year; I have changed, dear.

The cascades call me
I smell the green
I hear the whisper

Of Douglas fir trees
His ash is scattered
In between them

Anymore all I know
To refer to
Are the forests

Now even those
They are clearcuts
They are meadows

I just now saw the wildflowers

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from Dust Jacket, released September 28, 2008

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