Story Info
Story Info
Dale Temple Wilson
Rangeley Lake, Maine, USA
2014
Type of Wounded Place
Story & Experience
As if standing in a heat storm, conifer tree trunks of the northern forests blister and ooze. Years of acid rain and indiscriminate aerial praying cast the spruce and fir trees into silent weeping and a rapid demise. Losing their life-flow sap, many of these trees turn into bleached skeletons in a matter 2-3 decades when once before their life expectancy ran 50-70 years.
In observance of this manmade dis-ease, the rad joy bird was composed of both manmade clothing and living plants to parallel the existence of the forest’s transformation. The poem ‘The Grasses’ by mystic Rumi was offered as a hospice benediction, as witness to the conifers seeming suffering while a melodic chime sits vigil in the branches.
As if standing in a heat storm, conifer tree trunks of the northern forests blister and ooze. Years of acid rain and indiscriminate aerial praying cast the spruce and fir trees into silent weeping and a rapid demise. Losing their life-flow sap, many of these trees turn into bleached skeletons in a matter 2-3 decades when once before their life expectancy ran 50-70 years.
In observance of this manmade dis-ease, the rad joy bird was composed of both manmade clothing and living plants to parallel the existence of the forest’s transformation. The poem ‘The Grasses’ by mystic Rumi was offered as a hospice benediction, as witness to the conifers seeming suffering while a melodic chime sits vigil in the branches.
Rangeley Lake, Maine, USA
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