sometimes we resist by stephen collis |cascadia review
sometimes we resist
by stephen collis
I was in a park I could not see Global capitalism Its dinosaur bones Covered in chrome I saw trees Their leaves Turning yellow and Golden brown I saw the harbour And the city set Down below The mountain A place you’d descend to Or ascend from I asked someone How do we resist? Consider the trees Bending in the wind Their root grip Deep in the land Consider the mountain That does not drift A little east or west North or south But remains a marker We chart day’s circuits round I asked What if they come With saw teeth For the trees With horizontal Directional drilling For pipelines through Mountain’s immobile heart? And one there said Sometimes the voice Sometimes the voices Tear teeth from saw’s blades Sometimes a body Sometimes all our bodies Blunt the bits of drills Dull dollar’s desire Sometimes Someone said Someone just like You or me Sometimes we resist
Sometimes we win
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