We extinguish forests
Maple, Elm, Tamarack
to name streets
in obituary
Call neighborhoods
Prairie, Meadow, Woodland
for flowers no longer blooming
through deserts of a single grass
Clear cut; relocate
Chippewa, Sauk, Winnebago
to christen county name
trophies of their absence
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash.
Ed Makowski
Ed Makowski is a semi-disciplined multidisciplinarian from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He gets paychecks as a storyteller on behalf of scientific research. Ed likes to get lost and find wild animals, prefers two wheels to four.
Ed Makowski can be found at: RadderThanDeath.com.
He is on Instagram too: @edmakowski