The big picture of context and perspective,
historical vision, artistic sight,
envelopes the visible universe.
Forget the original growth forest,
obviously, manifest destiny,
railroads, airports, and interstate traffic
erupts our temporal domain, our homes,
synchronic and diachronic forces
tears down the future for the fleeting past,
forge centuries of industry, smokestacks,
ore, coal, oil, revolution for the rich,
remember the exploitation of poor
transient workers of the world, no rights,
human, civil, lopped off fingers and hands,
enter the thresher up to the elbow.
Tragic, our lack of compassion, senses
ripped out from eye sockets, blinded, we see
entirely by scent, dogs chase wild hares,
egregious behavior by the machine,
she cannot see the forest for the trees.
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