poem
Volume 27, Number 4

Tectonic Drift

Because of its links
to wildlife declines
the Code of the Warrior
produces high quality
Bluegrass. I’ve been
moving across town
for the past few days,

installing high-tech
filters to recycle most
of it into chemicals that
elsewhere have been
banned for decades, &
making natural history
documentaries as I go

that are designed for
machines first &
humans second. I'll
live with the guilt
for years & years. It's
my equivalent of
the mushroom cloud.


—Mark Young