{"id":19242,"date":"2017-04-22T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=19242"},"modified":"2017-04-22T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:32:42","slug":"a-prophecy-for-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2017\/04\/22\/a-prophecy-for-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A prophecy for Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Crystal<\/a>

Crystal ball. Photo: Mo<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

Earth Day is, if anything, a day for taking the long view – a thing that seems increasingly difficult to accomplish amid the heated rhetoric of this moment. The twin cults of self-absorption and immediate gratification accelerate society through another hectic day of consumption. Taking\u00a0the long view requires that we get over ourselves a little bit, a prospect that has all the appeal of a nice bowl of hot dirt.<\/p>\n

Being a writer, I am more than usually susceptible to self-absorption and particularly ill-adapted to getting over myself. But I manage on rare occasions to break through to the long view nonetheless, and see that in the epic\u00a0of deep time, I’m just one of the extras.<\/p>\n

Prophecy<\/h2>\n

The seas shall rise and recede,
\nthe glaciers wane and wax again.
\nIn this land, called by another name,
\nfolk will speak a tongue unknown to me.<\/p>\n

These genes I carry will be swizzled
\nback into the random millions,
\nmanifesting here in a skeptical eye
\nor there, a knobby knee, an undershot jaw.<\/p>\n

These hills, in the low slow heat of time,
\nwill flow like wax, like dunes
\nafter the storm. Nothing will avert;
\nnothing will abide unchanging.<\/p>\n

The new moon may glimmer
\nwith the lights of cities, or not.
\nNone can say. But however loud
\nmy cry, or poignant my song,<\/p>\n

no word of this prophecy will remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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