Glenn Bach
from Atlas



are there fewer birds how

would we know)—every moment the brink

of radical transformation



but not for the reasons you expect



that mask: that veil by

Jim Crow a white mob

opposes the sale



is not every moment a transition?



Did the exodus finally

abate?

Glenn Bach
from Atlas



scraper: poplar: measuring

                 where no one would want

to live / plants described





stick pine / carry many people

how to bring to ground / pull

w/out attachment





everything possible in a day’s





dri l l s  caul kin g scr a p er

                 releasenature       trans for mations

     cordage:redwoodtar

          wedge




cling


          where the current is weakest)

Glenn Bach
from Atlas



watch with the greatest

earnestness

     so that they

may gather seeds


to cycles of earth and sky

     these plants that follow fire


                                                            [emphasis added:


                                                            encroachment of coastal


                                                            sage scrub & perhaps


                                                            of chaparral


quantities of chia they were

reported

                  khutash



                                                            for the food


                                                            she gave them




to the edges of these fields

     to languish

no physical remains


                                                            the tools ]



new conclusions about these

vessels or the excavation

of a cache

     this is an issue

     simple

to solve

     the currents of the world

we find ourselves

Glenn Bach
from Atlas



not in decades. Will we be left behind



deny the costs we are all, still, the data:

what is right in front of us the names

for these neighborhoods the landscape dissolving into

the light



only the mountains the sea and the land in between



smoke no longer the land in / to a state

of wonder



where will our Doggerland

swimming over the past: spoilheaps

if we forget the map



causative / if we created

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