deserts stalk the earth

at ever-increasing kilometers per year

annihilate soil that nurtures new growth ….

Capitalism in perpetuity is not a scenario conducive to species survival. Transformative change has to happen. Human beings need to draw upon critical curiosity, imagination, scepticism and truth-telling to develop new and better ways of living on this planet.

A door creaked open from a watery room.

I flowed, floated, this me that was born,

my chromosomes containing thousands of genes,

some with alleles, mutations

normal to our species,

although many pretend that is not the case.

To Rosa Luxemburg and the many other woman comrades who have fought and are fighting for a just world.

this charred dusk

this forest of

blackened

desecration

One million fish die to a frantic beat

Murray cod

golden and silver perch

bony bream with shining spirit skins

their ghostly swim bladders whisper