Radical Revision Exercise #1

Radical Revision

A Joke Comes To Me About Ecopoetics For Business Students

Tree or moss, there is never
an answer in the wind despite

what has been said or sung or you may have
thought you heard.  Look to see if boots crush

new born grass, look to see if crushes have
ever been new born grass, look to see if radical revision

of a past alleviates boredom or vermisilitude
an antidote to dying live oaks. Alternate facts

or alternate realities, the appearance of truth
more than matter of fact.  The sound of moss

growing not up for debate.  Exploitive
in the end seems to be just another salve

for half charged capability.



Original

Thinking About Business Below A Dead Live Oak

This old tree, a rope barrier around it to try and protect
it but the drought may have killed, only small brown leaves left
here and there.  Moss and lichen ignore the state of the tree, thrive off the
tree whether dead or alive, while not visible I’m sure life is below the
bark as well,  rotting wood provides a good home for
those that live off the dead or dying.

A joke comes to me about ecopoetics for business students that are here too,
how they are getting insight into the best ways to exploit
the natural world, what opportunities, what can be leveraged.
Perhaps a lesson from the moss or the lichen and this tree.

Beside me a woman’s grey Puma trainer crushes brown leaves
into mud.  Fresh tiny blades of grass break through the dirt on the other side
of the rope barrier.  Look to see if my boot crushes any new grass.
It’s not.

Probably dead, bare branches reach towards a grey blank sky.
Which I must ask myself,  the tree or the moss?