Earth Day
We met like this, on this day
and our life's work together
maybe who knows has saved it,
together with so many others
whose persistence stays the worst,
the few who do what they can
is enough; the love they bear
for all the living and the faint
translucent vision of a future
filled with sharing, a future
with men no longer on the take,
filled with planetary kindness:
those hopeful few, those brave
persistent few, a tiny band
that may have saved us all.
One Day
Listen! It's all so ordinary
mostly nothing happens
quotidian they call it
then one day grey fox
grabs a rabbit so quick
right outside my window
I watch her take off with it
and then we all return
to that ordinary day
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Clifford Burke
Being Didactic
Desert Rose Press
2025
