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Earth Day 2022
April 24, 2022

I’ve had my head in the clouds so long
I don’t know how to climb back to my body.

In dreams my head is buried in the sand
and I make no effort to lift it.

Down below, somebody who goes by my name
cracks his knuckles and goes to work.

I admire him, how he furrows his brows
and picks his nails. I admire his anguish, what stress

has done to his complexion and mood. He is busy
fighting in ways I cannot fathom, here amidst

the mountaintops and forest canopies, at peace.
But if I reach down and touch his jugular, I recoil

from the rat-tat-tat of his burden, wonder what flowers
he will have saved in time to adorn our grave.

See my prior Earth Day poems:

Earth Day 2021: A Love Poem

April 22, 2020: 50 Years of Earth Day

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