Eat for Sustainability

This is just a reminder that the world's ocean environments are in perhaps even greater peril than our terrestrial ones. Bottom trawling, overharvesting, imbalanced foodwebs, acidification, etc. are all driving widespread ecosystem collapses. Simply because they're less visible to us land-lubbers and we can't immediately see the effects, it doesn't mean that things are alright. Play your part by making sustainable seafood choices and demand change from an egregiously exploitative industry.

I Just Want to be Robinson Jeffers

These stone-heavy limbs weigh me down;
Keep me tied to the earth
If only I could shed their mineral casings
Sheet by sheet unloading
Until my crystalline innards stand exposed
To the circling condors above
In the deep sapphire California sky
Come dine on the rubies and garnets
Of my opened chest
Spread my jewelled offering aloft
Drifting across dry western winds

I could rest easy then, knowing myself
Freed from brittle form
Safe inside those Great Decomposers
Agents of Shiva
Closing the perpetual circle
To be cast again into form.