This morning, early,
I pulled 30 plastic bags
from the throats
of sea turtles.
Then, I held back
a phosphate spill
from invading
a Florida river.
I’m now circling poachers
who are ready to claim
a large bull elephant’s
life.
By lunch time, I will have
replanted the milkweed
that was plowed under
for a New Jersey parking lot.
The monarchs will be overjoyed.
I’ll rest
in the afternoon sun,
feeling the earth
breath.
By dinner,
I will have collected
all steel jawed traps,
while red fox watch from the bushes.
Then, closing my eyes, in the moonlight,
I will know that all two leggeds
have awakened to the preciousness
they are destroying.
All One 