6

Can you imagine

what if we did

if we left the oil

in the ground?

Think of everything

we don’t do

waiting and pressing

against no ideas

It’s said the human

is unique in picturing

what it will build in

the mind before building

Picture then what

you won’t build

broken pipe rivers

and carbon machines

Or some other structure

you might—wind and sun

gleaned from givenness

the need not to travel

Great distances to bring

some spice to the lips

of a hunger no longer

redirecting the clouds