The Seven Men of Eptagonia and Other Poems
The Seven Men of Eptagonia
(with interjections from my grandfather)
In a small town up the breast of the uppermost land mound there is a land of Seven Corners where - They do - there are seven men who…
Place
Culture, Place, Poetry, Uncategorized
Culture, Ecosystems, Philosophy, Place
Ancient Olive Trees
May a man look up from the utter hardship of his life and say: let me be like these.
Hölderlin, In Lovely Blue.
1 Circa 1400 BCE. An olive tree in Vouvés, Crete. From ‘vouvismos’ meaning the whispering of the …
Art, Place
Stone Memory
On July 23rd, 2018, I witnessed a 10’ flash flood tear past my Santa Fe home. A tsunami in a quiet valley, washing downstream animals, debris, and tumbling boulders, leaving behind a raw and reordered landscape.
Ecosystems, Place, Urban
In the Green
I’m not a very good nature tour guide. For one thing, I don’t know much about nature. For another, I walk very quickly; I have to keep reminding myself to slow down. Despite my shortcomings; however, two days before Halloween 2019, I take my English Composition class on a walk to a nearby greenspace, a short walk from our community college campus in Queens. Greenspace. It’s such a recent compound that Word autocorrects it into two.
Human Landscape, Place
Re-Memories of Warming
Memories are translations. We gather much and miss more. I originally compiled this archive in spring of 2022 for a final project in a course on environmental histories and values. I did it mostly for myself. I wanted to attend to what I had picked up throughout the pandemic — people, places, poems, photographs. These fragments are re-memories of ecosystems and relational nests.
Art, Place, Urban
A Visit to “The New York Earth Room”
Today’s itinerary: visit Earth Room, where a layer of soil, two feet thick, has occupied a gallery in SoHo since 1977.