Grasses rising through the thatch
Cold wind on our ears
Shadows of the chasing birds
We must guard the earth
Corporations, too, my friend
Our small and petty lives
Languages of birds and wind
Broken by the road
Contrails screen the sun
Who guards the earth
Who guards the earth?
—"The earth, too, was once a heavenly body." -- Galway Kinnell,
from the final stanza of "Gravity," his last published poem.
from the final stanza of "Gravity," his last published poem.
