ghosts

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on a part of the question

of how we might distinguish

between that which has

rights

and that which does not:

well, one thing is clear

any rock borrows nothing

to be -

which you simply cannot

say

of an artifact -

always built from somebody's bones -

nothing made from

what wasn't -

what is here –

what is made

is made with what is here -

the question of how we treat corpses

is the place in this world

where our traveling

thought and the

beat of the earth

coincide

what is here

was here. hear the

nuthatch's tin horn

and try to remember

the last hummingbird

you saw -

what is made

was made from the corpse of what is

here.

see the diatom dead

at the bottom

of the sea. the seas die.

i see across the water

i see the refinery at cherry

point.

ive seen kinglets and chickadees

and sparrows collude.

how often these tall flames

from the mainland –

we are the ghosts.

you are a ghost. you are.