Story Info
Story Info
Joanne Martin
Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA
2018
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
Joanne Martin
Metal clanking as the giant cranes erect metal scaffolding Chirrup chirrup from the baby robins Screeeecchhh as the trains carrying supplies pull into the construction zone Swoosh swoosh goes the butterfly Rumble rattle as trucks traverse the chemical plant Thump thump of my heartbeat when Fox comes into sight. The listening vigil to hear what the earth has to say about resource extraction became a weeklong Earth Exchange—because She had so much so say! Many treks from the industrial corridor, then to almost pristine wilder sights and homebase to the yellow-hearted boulder to recover. The land and activity surrounding the petrochemical plant under construction was metal upon metal, truck rumblings, train clinking—unearthly sounds, pure human exploitation. What was “heard” from the Earth while watching the industrial activity was a big SIGH; Earth is waiting and watching as humans exhaust resources for our lives—then She will recover to support other life.
Joanne Martin
Metal clanking as the giant cranes erect metal scaffolding Chirrup chirrup from the baby robins Screeeecchhh as the trains carrying supplies pull into the construction zone Swoosh swoosh goes the butterfly Rumble rattle as trucks traverse the chemical plant Thump thump of my heartbeat when Fox comes into sight. The listening vigil to hear what the earth has to say about resource extraction became a weeklong Earth Exchange—because She had so much so say! Many treks from the industrial corridor, then to almost pristine wilder sights and homebase to the yellow-hearted boulder to recover. The land and activity surrounding the petrochemical plant under construction was metal upon metal, truck rumblings, train clinking—unearthly sounds, pure human exploitation. What was “heard” from the Earth while watching the industrial activity was a big SIGH; Earth is waiting and watching as humans exhaust resources for our lives—then She will recover to support other life.
Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA
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