to Charlie Stine (Stein), Maryland State Environmentalist/ecologist Pro Tem- a r

[dave eberhardt]

a report from the front
>
>
> The skinks, the newts, the Allegheny hellbender whose range
> Has shrunk up next to nothing, Chesapeake Bay
> Thad I'd put up there beside Maine/ California coast- athough
> a gentler beauty-
> The shore not of rock, but rather oaks and holleys...
>
> Has also been diminished thanks to new pirates-
> Same species as John Smith who saw
> We lived with bounty,  us - homos, not sapien "Knowing" but but
> homos unkowing- new pirates - the developers,
>
> Overfishers (I guess they didn't know better?)- it's us!- just like
> The tribes who warred before us- Susquehannocks, Cecil Calvert...
> Squabbling about Kent Island - all this history
> You were never taught- and so much more to uncover...
>
> You think ELF wrong to blow up radio towers, was anyone
> hurt?
> Let's stand besides the species that were lost today!
> Earth Liberation Front!-that's it: spring peepers, tree frogs send
  Their message in unison--"You asshole humans mark "THE END!"

[constantine]

i'm right behind you, dave. free terra!

[dave eberhardt]

i am especially pround of the "thad" in the 3rd line
i was thinking of that i'd- and i said thad i'd
instead of that i'd

i work at the jail with a lot of "black" folks
is this a bleed over?

how about thad I

realize- there are a lot of grey areas to writing!

[MikeMonroe]

We definitely need to start paying more attention to what we're doing to our environment.  It seems more and more people are becoming aware, but there are still those who close their minds to it.  We need to pry 'em open.  I spend a lot of time on Kent Island.  I should read up on the history a little more.  It's a beautiful place.

[Light Haven]

good poem. it flows.