Mother Earth........for one shot.

Mother Earth

What is wrong with the world?

We all sit on her axis and

wonder how we can shift it.

“Oh she shifted herself the other day.”

But did we have any influence on her decision?

Did we shave one too many rain forests

as the stubble trips us up?

Did the smoke stacks, like big Cuban

cigars, cause her to violently cough?

Did our little street side pods of waste

become pills forced down her throat?

Did the oil spills drench the greens

like too much salad dressing?

Have we messed with her “zone”?

Are the bald patches in her ozone

hair evidence of our chemo-therapy?

Have we forsaken our God given

stewardship?

Have we not read enough Wendell Berry?

Will Lucy Shaw collect poems

about the brown earth?

Will one of God’s greatest poems be

 reduced to utilitarian prose?

Are we now disregarding

the mother nurture she

so naturally gave us?