“Is this the baseline,
living, living at last, without all of civilization’s tortured overlay?”
—Cecile Pineda
The
idiom “down with something”
means
bring it literally or
symbolically
closer to earth,
that
is, exalt it with honor.
Revere
it beside or within
this
precious ground that we are born
to
pass upon. Down with our dreams.
Down
with the cornucopias
that
grace the tables in our homes.
Down
with our lives. Down with our deaths.
Up
with the zeal that cuts atoms!
Up
with spur-and-bridle fever!
Down
with resting uranium!
Ionosphere
take those monsters
of bodiless
information!
Holy
is the altar herself,
this
flesh of Gaia—down with Her!
Truly beautiful, Daniel!
ReplyDeleteI know, someone needs to say it, I am down with this poem : )
ReplyDeleteLet the outmoded sky god cults reorient to the gravely roundly spinning sphere that makes us whole and deeply, downly keeps us here.