My Significant Other
Poem
Scottish Book Trust (Garden Area)
David Haley is an ecological artist and Research Fellow in MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design) at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a founding member of SEA: Social and Environmental Arts Research Centre, A&E: Art & Ecology Research Group, Water & Well-Being and he leads the MA Art As Environment programme.
My Significant Other
Potential for life
Clouds form, rain falls, rivers flow
Water remembers
All depend on it
It depends on no other
A life of its own
Bountiful planet
The unimaginative
Ruthless denial
__________
Controlling empires
One step back is a long way
At the ocean’s edge
Theatre of war
Spectre with a smoking gun
Suspend disbelief
Forgone conclusion
Evolution modified
By market forces
__________
Commons for a song
Somewhere between drought and flood
Plateau of despair
The end of the show
The end of all paradigms
The end of the pier
And when time runs out
My significant other
The last drop’s for love
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