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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about Earth
		Earth Took of Earth by Anonymous, read by Galway Kinnell

		Earth Your Dancing Place by May Swenson

		Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters

		Gospel by Philip Levine

		Hamatreya by Ralph Waldo Emerson

		He Stood by Aaron Shurin

		Prologue of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris

		the earth is a living thing by Lucille Clifton

		The Earth Opens and Welcomes You by Abdellatif Laâbi

		To Earthward by Robert Frost

		[Toward the empty earth] by Osip Mandelstam, read by Jean Valentine

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Elegy in Limestone

by CJ Evans

If the water, everywhere, and if she

is. If ghosts, like water, like if all

rivers and oceans and rains are one

ghost, surrounding and throughout.

If she is, like if the lakes and bays

of Seattle define Seattle, if the ices

Of Mars and Massachusetts,

hidden in their deep stones, define

Mars and Massachusetts; if she is.

A thirst unmet, alkaline or saline,

the water not touching that thirst,

if my thirst wants something else

entirely. If she is. Water, if it is in

and is blood. If invisible until

exhale. If science lies and water

doesn’t reflect sky but sky this

water. If she is the sound, if it isn’t

essential until its lack. If she is

the sound of. Waves. If in the body,

the dew in morning, and the moon.

If she is the sound of the water.

If rising, if breaking, if throughout.

About this poem:

"In the places I've lived—Seattle, Portland, New York, San Francisco—water is everywhere, dictating the landscapes and cities, even though in my day-to-day life I so often forget to consciously see it. And loss is the same as water—everywhere around and within, even when not consciously attended to. Loss becomes the unacknowledged dictator of the entire landscape."

CJ Evans

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