(header photographs by Harry Waite 1912-2011)

The Myth of the Sacred Brumby

 

 

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Techno-Civilization
The Other Side
Take my soul, but the struggle continues –
Ken Saro Wiwa
A second hand light embezzled from the sun
a dim attempt to best nature. An inauthentic
magnificence which fades like a drug induced dream.
 
Grotesque necklaces of halogen and neon chocking the world,
powered by sacred mountains reduced to poisoned dust and
toxic soot smears across the holy desert skies.
 
An anomalous infestation on the natural order of things.
An excrescence spawned by the mad coupling of a
phantom called reason with a nightmare named progress
 
Sid Bridges
"Earth First Journal" March-April 2001
In the right hand lane
Heading South on Route 64
Saw a late model blue Mitsubishi
truck swerve to
shoulder around what thought
was wheel
 
I also swerved but saw it
was large tortoise
trying to get across
6 lanes of interstate.
 
I saw the neck stretch out
walking then stopping
and going in shell
as my truck approached
 
My prayers, my fears, my uncertainties,
and my admiration
symbol of longevity & this land
going headlong towards danger
technology rampant death, destruction
will we make it.
 
Turtle, Alexandria, VA 28/5/97
"Earth First Journal" February-March 2001