How many more objects, concepts, species,
histories that once had happy associations
will we have to let go of because
industrial capitalism is based on
ignorance of the natural order
of ecological interdependence?
I saw a photo of a wooden swing–
unoccupied–surrounded by a field
of sunflowers and, of course, all I could
think about was Ukraine, with its famous
fields of upturned faces and the absence of so
many of its children–emigrated, unschooled,
wounded, killed in a brutal strongman’s war.