The Brooklyn Rail

This talk was originally written for a panel on Ecopoetics organized by Brenda Iijima and Evelyn Reilly and held on January 21, 2006 at the Bowery Poetry Club. A compilation of writings from the event and beyond, entitled )((eco (lang)(uage(reader)), will be published this November by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

For Felix The truth is hidden in a veil of tears/The scabs of the mourners grow thick with fear…

The dragonflies were/was was to discover/now/wings.