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| Shell Arctic Drilling Fleet OK'd To Use 'Green' West Seattle Port. —KUOW.org, January 14, 2015 |
Boxes clickclack like LEGOS
escorted by confident cranes over
fragile veins to keep the whole world
up and racing.
The city, from their point of view
a sidebar, has enough year-round jade
for mercantile satiation
if only it were capital
and not growing things.
Traditionally, the city has guarded
all its life – it would rather
articulated bus jackknife all over the highway
than salt the roads during a snow
because of the tainted runoff
into the salmons’ stream.
This city that cares so much for its fish
is the same city that is making room
for an armada of royal oil drillers
to station among the blocks and birds.
Every green movement
can be whitewashed;
every commitment to fish
can be watered down.
m.nicole.r.wildhood is a Colorado native who has been living in Seattle – and missing the sun – since 2006. She has been a saxophone player and registered scuba diver for over half her life. In addition to blogging at http://megan.thewildhoods.com, she writes poetry, fiction and short nonfiction, which have appeared in The Sun, Lodestone and Ballard: A Journal of Street Poetry, ditchpoetry.com and Café Aphra. She and her husband, who is gifted both as a structural engineer and as an artist, often collaborate on poetry/painting pieces. She seeks to be an advocate for those experiencing mental and emotional suffering and celebrates the misfits, the non-conventional and the bold.