The Eco-dementia Project – poems, photographs, mixed media (2016-2019)
(def.) ē-kō də-men(t)-sh(ē)ə – condition of humanity; a love of the living world while causing and suffering its destruction.
(def.) ē-kō də-men(t)-sh(ē)ə – condition of humanity; a love of the living world while causing and suffering its destruction.
Eco-dementia (Wayne State University Press, 2017)
"Eco-dementia is not nature poetry, but an immersive language in the tangle of the living world."
Explosions in the sanctuary
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By the time you think weaponry the blood-script of tall grass, which must have been quick razor-cuts criss-crossing your arms, red lines of A’s and X’s and Y’s, and for all that so little pain, by the time you see letters they’re already erasing, smeared, but it’s very clear how in this same world, another field, a body blown to the ground has already read every word. |
Composed no more but asunder and saturated as with color feel how that feels boundaryless molten and glowing subsumed fancy-free brokenness is becoming now and again |
The fate of fences
Floodwaters
In this case he says take some time
but I do believe
time has taken us
far too far
for scattershot
revelations or shortcuts
through eco-dementia, for instance,
and EF-4s in the cellar,
where the crazy love
of a slope takes over,
that’s all that’s left,
and the switchgrass outside,
even the roots, end up in another county
we don’t know the name of
or which way its waters flow
but I do believe
time has taken us
far too far
for scattershot
revelations or shortcuts
through eco-dementia, for instance,
and EF-4s in the cellar,
where the crazy love
of a slope takes over,
that’s all that’s left,
and the switchgrass outside,
even the roots, end up in another county
we don’t know the name of
or which way its waters flow
Automatic whirlwinds
In the Manure Sprayfields of Michigan . . .
Armed Bugwomen, Creatures from the Depths, and Other Planetary Forces Confront the Polluting Mechanisms of Liquid Manure Operations
Armed Bugwomen, Creatures from the Depths, and Other Planetary Forces Confront the Polluting Mechanisms of Liquid Manure Operations