By Rhianna Searle
Our climate changes
and our society stagnates.
We’ve grown
among deciduous forests,
but the biomes are shifting.
So
why
aren’t
we?
Dirt is a derogatory word–
don’t you see!
How can we elevate
the ground we walk on?
Get down in it,
Go out and touch it:
the turtles with scarred red geometry
the frozen pond with spider cracks
the native oaks, fathers of the forest.
This is how you translate dirt into soil.
This is how you personify the pie charts.
This is how you shift the science into the streets.
This is how you peel the world off the page
and into action.
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