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GEO-BESTIARY: 6 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: O BLM, BLM, AND NFS
Last Line: NOW MOSTLY SCAR TISSUE?
Subject(s): ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION;

O BLM, BLM, and NFS,
what has your mother, the earth,
done to you that you rape and scalp
her so savagely, this beautiful woman
now mostly scar tissue?



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