from
There Is No Silver Lining,
released May 16, 2016
Flung from the face of the Earth on fossil fumes
The final phlegm from a throat convalescing
Humanity’s holdouts peer out through their portholes
As darkness swallows their islands of plastic
Histories etched in sidewalks cracked by roots
Crumble, revealing
An anamnesis in rings concentric
Whole and unredacted
The prognosis
The Earth inhales, snapping the asphalt chains across her chest
Begin again
Arteries blocked now flow; the man-made dams have given way
Begin again
The Earth inhales, snapping the asphalt chains across her chest
Begin again
Arteries blocked now flow; the man-made dams have given way
Begin again
The Earth exhales, returning rusted husks of cars to dust
Begin Again
Buildings like monuments pulled down by throngs of thriving vines
Begin again
Begin again; the end of Men
Is Earth’s rebirth; begin again