1. 29 New Zealand Miners, dead
In seventeen years, the youngest of the
bodies had been born, the oldest had
been fathers.
Rusting and void of oxygen, imagine
their pretty limbs and blue blood scattered,
their pretty wives above ground
with balloons.
And now.
The transfixed viewers turn to their
gas stoves.
2. 33 Chilean miners, rescuedLuis Urza, 69 days, 8 hours,
escape tunnel to
champagne, confetti, balloons.
And now.
The transfixed viewers turn to their
gas stoves.
3. Protest Mountain Top Removal in West Virginia
An activist that I met once in Chicago
was volunteering at a high school, leaning on his car, and talking to me between bites
of a ham sandwich about protesting mountain top removal
in West Virginia, where he has spent some time,
and helped some people once, a dancing hawaian on his dash.
4. Wind farm vetoed in Cape Cod
Because those wind turbines
clutter the
land.
5. The birth of Natalia Elise Marciano, December 23, 2010
endless energy cascades
from the thought of new life,
of preservation,
of turning the t.v. off and
going outside, of spending
quality time in the smaller
corners of a suburban household.
after a few months and
gallons of the sweet bitter breast
milk,
transfixed viewers turn to their gas stoves.
