Clambering up a steep hill, jogging behind me, a
man looking young for his age breathlessly said,
"Here is where I turn."          

There are people who move within themselves
like breath flowing through a funnel that opens
to worlds in which there's life we haven’t come
to be: fish, bird, coyote, tree in each resolution
that doesn't see we can now reuse the circular
theme, so important in the history of cartography,
to focus directly on geochemical cycles. Where-
as life on the Blue Planet was barely visible, it is
now central because the pavement's cracking,
while smoke sweeps the mountain's summit.

Boundless times, I've turned in this direction.

 

 

we can now:: A. Arenes, et.al., "Giving Depth to the Surface: An
Exercise in the Gaia-graphy of Critical Zones." The Anthropocene
Review. Vol 5(2) 2018.