a village turns and turns again
what is the degree of our lost
molly wonders how it is that things turn our way
grinding down
let's just say
we are outside the edge of a shimmer
what is or is not what it needs to be for us
what is shimmering
will the village be empty, a ghost town
 who tells the stories and why
indeed, maybe
this will go on with some insistence
the village was green and is now orange
seeing is slightly computerized
also
too many people want assurance
birds are slightly forgetful
where will we lodge the lodge
in the village, a few ashen people pad about
in the middle is what seems an abandoned oil derrick
rusted and dissembling
even the air is oil
we pass the diner and walk on
hungry and desiring the exterior
tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
bower instantiate meditate bog nitrogen
abacus integer blossom distill turtledove
purvey cyclamen regulate overcome jewel
inculcate Rhine mine line pine pigpen
substantiate fulfill plum sepulchre vermin
leveler chlorophyl yellowbill dollar bill oxygen
razorbill gardener grill drill become radiate hocus
bounteous pocus ghoul focus mewl
chrysanthemum forager mate scrivener harnesser
shower flower plower mutate
slate Maypole will control developer
toadstool renewal provender aquifer cocklebur
pill cogitate fen consign convey stamen survey
spate date measure pleasure
enscroll pillager define wine fate
instill chirp foxglove predate role
manage chirp feline fishline porcupine clinch
tower refine pistil chirp patrol confine align
canine finch whereof dog chirp assign
divine bovine ruler clog fog cog chirp
pinch lynch artificer chirp hyacinthine
hog jog chirp log Frankenstein design
chirp discerp usurp dove thereof
(chirp
tinkle tinkle-tinkle-tinklee-tee tinkle-tinkle-tinklee-tee tinkle
plane engines sound like gravel and clouds bank into a high Midwestern wall
we wait for the thunder
planes continue to fly far above pilots ordering seat belts on
birds go silent
engines buzz and buzz, cars under the planes droning by in damp air
a gravel buzz
granite clouds
a lost dog scurries about the street, running across it and
across it again, following its betraying nose
flowers droop and engines drone and buzz
a rattled, disabled squirrel bounces sideways across a yard, it's back curved
thrashing
clouds fold and bundle
stillness
quiet
a plane's engine rumbles into the heavy calm
heavy calm
cool air slashes into the humidity
many directions
sun slashes through a gap in layers of clouds
a few big drops fall
awaiting
engines drone and buzz
winds rise and rise clouds wisp out and dissolve
planes appear again with their sound
billowy clouds and cool wind
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dam begins
impound Yangtze
mountains
will become islands if eco-
logical results similar
outcome will dev-
astate diversity species
according
scientists
185 meters tall
dam's reservoir
ecological effects
esti-
mates an ecologist
larger
than West Virginia
species
endangered
rare
100 new islands
adjust losses frag-
mentation of habitat
microclimate
concentrated
increasing competition
devastation
shrinkage habitats
population crash
lose
poll-
inate disperse
great oppor-
tunity to study habitat frag-
mentation
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