Eco-Poetics is the perfect way to absorb this group’s transition into a LivingLab semester at Nantucket. While at the Umass Field Station two images captured my attention and inspired the following poem:

A single chimney

Two canoes nestled as turtles

Under a splash of snow

Lay quietly

Two sleeping bear cubs

Bathed in rich golden milk

Resting by the wood-shingle shack

With a white fishing bucket

Standing guard in front

Earthen red cedar doors

And the air crisp

Whispers slide across the frozen pond

Over tall bleached grass

Rustling past a drift wood bird house

White covered ice, hiding

The flat expanse, enveloped

Soaking in sweet amber

Golden reeds to red scrub oak

Illuminated

A single chimney

There, far off in the distance