A Small Needful Fact
Is that Eric Garner worked
for some time for the Parks and Rec.
Horticultural Department, which means,
perhaps, that with his very large hands,
perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures,
like being pleasant to touch and smell,
like converting sunlight
into food, like making it easier
for us to breathe.
This poem rocks!
ReplyDeleteI love the narrator's voice. And the link between people and the environment. Eric Garner, in all likelihood, making the world a better place.
...and while justice may not, the good lives on.
DeleteAre you suggesting that my philosophies tend toward the cyclical nature of life?! You are absolutely correct...
ReplyDeleteIt's like there is a breath that you take in when you read the title...slowly exhaling throughout the entire poem until the period at the end when the "tide is in" and the breath can rest, pause, and continue again.
How we are all a part of the same breath.