PEGI EYERS
Did you know that you were loved?
You - admired and adored, claimed
by your beauty and grace?
Both the first time,
and then the second time you were killed
scraped up like so much debris -
your spunky heart, growth spurt
not taking die for an answer.
The second round
dealt the killing blow
you had survived so much already,
Earth Ancestors past the bridge
take note -
Our Beloved has fallen
to a massive set of
earth-busting
green-crunching
steel-trapped jaws.
How do the killers sleep at night?
Photography by Pegi Eyers
"Trees Lost at Stone Circle Farm"
Summer Solstice 2020
You - admired and adored, claimed
by your beauty and grace?
Both the first time,
and then the second time you were killed
scraped up like so much debris -
your spunky heart, growth spurt
not taking die for an answer.
The second round
dealt the killing blow
you had survived so much already,
Earth Ancestors past the bridge
take note -
Our Beloved has fallen
to a massive set of
earth-busting
green-crunching
steel-trapped jaws.
How do the killers sleep at night?
Photography by Pegi Eyers
"Trees Lost at Stone Circle Farm"
Summer Solstice 2020
Pegi Eyers is the author of Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies
for social justice, ethnocultural identity, the ancestral arts, building land-
emergent community and resilience in times of massive change.
for social justice, ethnocultural identity, the ancestral arts, building land-
emergent community and resilience in times of massive change.
