Table of Contents
I. Dreams, Intuitions, Prophecy
Rich Follett
no reply 1
Rachael Ikins
Marked 2
Gene Grabiner
Spirit Bear 3
Mary Strong Jackson
Dreaming in Grief 4
Maureen Teresa McCarthy
Dawn Shadows 5
Laurinda Lind
Terminus 6
Jenni Fallein
The Golden Years 7
Gene Grabiner
Cousins 8
Maril Nowak
Coral Orgy 9
Alice Edwards
Memento mori 10
Mary Hood
Entering the Fjord 12
Mary Newell
Bank Tangle 13
Mark Roper
Where Does It Hurt 14
Steve Coffman
Through Nature's Eyes 15
Kathy Philpot
Moonshine 16
Mark Roper
Nightingale and Cello 17
Michael Brady
Conversation in the Fall 18
Dwain Wilder
The Only Morning We Lost 19
II. First Evidence
David James Delaney
Why So Many Bees Are Dying 21
Nancy Taylor
Once 22
Sherri Bedingfield
Shallows 23
Michele Brown
I could tell you 25
Rachael Z. Ikins
24 Hours, November 27
Maureen Teresa McCarthy
No Longer Home 29
Rachael Ikins
Waiting for Bees 30
Dane Ritter
Spoil 31
William Heyen
Carapace 32
III. Recognition & Alarms
Maril Nowak
The Difficulty of Water 33
Gretchen Schulz
River Rats 35
Robert Milby
Naping the Garden of Eden... 36
David Thomas
Summer of Fire 37
Mary Newell
Eating Seafood on the Hudson 38
Diane Ray
Orca Requiem 40
Katharyn Howd Machan
Hurricane Unicorn 41
Heather Thomas
Song Of The Sixth Extinction 42
Mary Dudley
Greta 43
Timothy Fab-
Blues and the Anatomy of Loss 44
Those About to Die 45
Gayle Lauradunn
Death of Humboldt 46
On a Meaningful Day 47
Karla Linn Merrifield
Real #1 48
Timothy Fab-
Unrequited Love and the Smell of Grief 49
IV. Feints & Resistance
Timothy Fab-
It’s Not My Business 53
Lisa Wujnovich
Storm Notes 55
Laura Glenn
Traveling Heavy 56
Kathy Philpot
Lacrimosa 58
Craig Czury
Swamp Haiku 59
Martha Deed
Ice Taxis on the Hudson 60
Bruce Bennet
Bad News 61
Jason Crane
Walnut Spring 63
Laura Glenn
Falling Asleep with the Radio On 64
Alan Weltzien
Earth Day 2018 65
Emeline Rodway
Enough 67
Jason Crane
I’d like to teach the world 68
Leah Zazulyer
Climate Change 69
Tim Fab-
Folly and the Inanities of Greed 70
V. Responses & Visions
Bart White
Sing, Mary 71
Gene Grabiner
Up North 72
Katrinka Moore
No light, but rather darkness visible 73
Gerald Schwartz
Posthumous Nocturne 74
Katharyn Howd Machan
Trilobite Unicorn 75
Diane L. Moser
Through the rippled glass 76
Mary Strong Jackson
Symbiotic Parasitism 77
John Roche
Joe the Climate Refugee 78
Dragonfly 79
Maril Nowak
How the Surging Blues 80
Ann Spiers
Cigarette Lighters 81
Ways to Cook Rice 82
Anna Staton
This Is War 83
Bart White
Inheritance 84
G.E. Schwartz
What Happened At Long Pond Road 85
William Heyen
Voices 86
Jessica Goodfellow
Lexical Gaps in the End Times 87
Gretchen Schulz
Take Your Carbon Socks Off 88
Jennifer Maloney
The Legend of Princess Frog 89
Laurinda Lind
This Togethering 92
William T. Langford IV
Avatars 93
David Michael Nixon
Deep Water Days 95
Mary Strong Jackson
The Power of Toad 96
Kaye C. Newbury
The night before I left my hometown for good 97
Lasting Wish 98
Caperton Tissot
Where Man Stands 99
Julene Waffle
To Live Deeply 100
Civilization in Crisis is a passionate cri de coeur, a warning, and also a rich celebration of nature and the beauty of our fragile world.
—Laury A. Egan, author of The Sea & Beyond
“In such dark times, it is poems like these that will turn us from battling the earth and call us back to acts of nurture.”
—Mike Burwell, author of Cartography of Water
and co-
Here you will find poems of angry condemnation, deep sorrow and desperate appeals, but also poems of joy and, improbably, humor, as poets reach back to childhoods, to memories of discovery and freedom while roaming the woods. Their poems ask us to remember our own innocence and wonder, to reflect and change.
—Bart White, co-
So it seems we are increasingly called to be citizens of the Earth itself... Here we have assembled poets from all over the world... Responses to crisis best come ... from the deep humanity of each of us, a humanity that at last knows it is completely at one with all life, careful of the fortunes of the least. We hope this collection contributes to that.
—Dwain Wilder, co-
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