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I have temporarily deactivated my Facebook and Messenger Account. I am still available by text and email.
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Water

6/25/2017

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Previously published
​in the Weatherings anthology from FutureCycle Press

 
© Ray Zimmerman 2017
 
Look through our disguise.
Find we are water.
Spread us thin and cast for trout
among rogue molecules,
deuterium laced water.
 
Distill us and build a bomb,
aided by that heavy water.
Trap us behind dams,
generate power
as we fall homeward.

Use us to polish silver.

Expiate every blemish.
Leave a shine.

Sail hard to leeward

on liquid, once part of a star.

Drink us down

when you finish Pilates.
You too are water,
at least 98 percent, and
not enough to go around.
 
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​The Rediscovery of North America

6/6/2017

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​The Rediscovery of North America
Barry Lopez
Reviewed by Ray Zimmerman
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“How, then, do we come to know the land, to discover what more may be there, more than merchantable timber, grazeable prairies, recoverable ores, damable water, netable fish?”

Lopez poses this question well into his short book which tells the story of colonialism in the Americas beginning with the first landfall in 1492. He draws on historical records, including the writings of Bartolome de las Casas, a man who accompanied the conquistadores and later became a priest. He describes some of the atrocities committed in those early days and claims that they set a precedent of wealth at all costs which reverberates through Manifest Destiny and contemporary politics. He names many of the tribes evicted from their lands and mourns the languages and cultures lost. He proposes a new relationship with the land and the native peoples which resonates in the debates about landscape and native peoples underway right now in 2017.  
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