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Drilling Down                           by Karla Linn Merrifield

11/27/2013

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He places his zafu
just so over
the Marcellus shale
It cushions his prolonged
sesshins sitting zazen
He counters hydrofracking mines
offsets the mineral rights of toxicity
negates greed
with daily meditation
God is Money?
In Money we trust?
One nation under Money?
No. One man’s Zen practice informs
the poetry of survival
The dharma of petroleum remains
deep in empty mind

 


                        for Dwain Wilder
                        with a line from Ellen Maloy

Appeared in Le Mot Juste, 2012





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A seven-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had nearly 300 poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has eight books to her credit, the newest of which are The Ice Decides: Poems of Antarctica (Finishing Line Press) andLiberty’s Vigil, The Occupy Anthology: 99 Poets among the 99%, which she co-edited for FootHills Publishing. Forthcoming from Salmon Poetry is Athabaskan Fractal and Other Poems of the Far North. Her Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills) received the 2009 Eiseman Award for Poetry and she recently received the Dr. Sherwin Howard Award for the best poetry published in Weber - The Contemporary West in 2012. She is assistant editor and poetry book reviewer for The Centrifugal Eye (www.centrifugaleye.com). Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet, at http://karlalinn.blogspot.com. 

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"End Fracking Now" Banner Project

11/4/2013

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The 2013 Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago networking event happened at Roosevelt University last weekend -- with dozens of wonderful discussions, keynote speeches, performances and other activities. I facilitated an interactive banner-making project at the university, in a sunlit alcove with a view of downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan in the distance.

The banner reads "End Fracking Now"; in addition to that phrase, event attendees contributed to it -- with words and illustrations that they drew and wrote on swatches of canvas. It was exciting to witness and be part of this community-interactive project, with dozens of people whose expressions appeared on the banner -- a "patchwork quilt" of creative and thoughtfully articulated voices about fracking. 

Here are some photos of the project. (More photos will be added soon.) Check out the Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago website to find out more about the excellent work they have been doing. 

-- Dan Godston
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    WTFrack 2013

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