Saturday, April 11, 2020

Poem from the book {Bunny Hop} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

Bulldozers and earthmovers on the hill with a derelict barn and an old apple orchard

The sprawl of houses eating away at the farmland

The farmland eating away at the prairie, woods, and marshland

I feel like the ocean

The temptation hangs before me

The fire is the sun and lays near my feet

Sweet liar that decays in the mist

Every joy for every boy

Laying by the heat radiating from the fire licking box

Sit still and wade into the elephant

Is the world just for humans

The kid tells me he has never seen a firefly

Trashing mother nature, developers call there developments (Deer Park), or (Eden Prairie) when there is nothing there but sod and houses

The environmental strategy should be the assassination of the money men

Luminous moose on the loose

Bright red monkeys with big blue behinds

She wonders if I am good material

The sun goes down like the fighting magic stick

Nice place but where are the cows

I've never lived in a home without being surrounded by cows and corn

This was heaven till the white man came

The earth is always in turmoil, falling, and changing.





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