The fish are all canaries
in our climate taxonomy.
The ocean is a coal mine,
and we are too dim to see
that the vanishing pods
the diminishing schools
reveal that we too are doomed,
made victims and fools.
The dying places in the sea
are deserts made of wet.
They are where the germ of life
was once made--but yet--
the toxic bloom, the deep sea drill,
we farmed the earth and the sea
too deeply and in the still
of the tides, wrought havoc on the world to be.
We should dig no further
in this salty mine
lest we pierce the heart
of the world divine.
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