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Leny M. Strobel



&nbsp I

&nbsp Not You?

&nbsp Not We?

&nbsp Why not?

&nbsp Therefore,

&nbsp Unfrack me.




&nbsp Forgot

&nbsp Amnesia
&nbsp Anesthetic
&nbsp Distract me

&nbsp I am emptied

&nbsp In spite of my
&nbsp Mastery

&nbsp Refill me with
&nbsp Plastic toys


&nbsp Plasticity

&nbsp As in plastic

&nbsp Oil

&nbsp Fossil fuel
&nbsp Aged in billions

&nbsp Extracted for profits

&nbsp Fracked with toxic
&nbsp effects



&nbsp Recognition

&nbsp Whose?

&nbsp Why?

&nbsp Do I want your
&nbsp recognition?

&nbsp No.

&nbsp I do not surrender to
&nbsp your gaze.





A Process Note:
Meditating on the title of the poem, the word that stood out for me is plasticity. Plastic. Oil. Fossil fuel. Resource Extraction. Fracking. Fracked World. As we have lived in the Empire of oil in the past century and have reaped its supposed benefits, it is also beginning to dawn on us that we have exceeded the limits of what the Earth can provide in its own biological time. Paul Erhlich in Human Natures writes that our cultural evolution has outpaced the biological evolution of the Earth. So here we are: our capacity for recognition filtered thru plasticity becomes a way to Forgetting.

Eileen conjures images in this poem that speak of both the light and dark of recognition. There is Beauty still in spite of the shadows. But with bombs falling on Iraq and Gaza, I am filled with Grief. And I pray for Rain.

—12 AUG 2014


 
 
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