A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us, and the passage of time, which inexorably changes us.
-Rowan Williams, Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
FIELD NOTES #32
They said when he saw a patient
he’d take their hands in his and mutter
under his breath, a cross between
diagnosis and prayer, a holy
incantation to comfort
the dying and demoniac.
Nowadays, we’d call him a fool.
Dismiss him before he spoke.
All because we're too scared of
things we refuse to understand:
We split Gaia down the middle
just to let her blood run
in black ribboned bands.