by Jim Gambaro
Fairy Creek Injunction
This is no April Fool’s joke
you have sold our grandchildren’s inheritance
for a mess of pottage
betrayed our forest relations
for corporate profit
long after you are gone
the web of life on desecrated land
will continue
rebuilding fibre by fibre
leaf by leaf
this nation was but a glimmer
of an idea
as they stretched slowly to the sky
shaded the understory
protected new growth
you see trees and lumber
I see medicine, ceremony and culture
a give and take
since time before time
and the children cry “shame”
and the plants cry “shame”
and the animals cry “shame”
and the birds cry “shame”
and the trees cry “shame”
written in response to the BC Supreme Court decision April 1, 2021 granting logging company Teal Jones an injunction banning old growth blockades at Fairy Creek
Janis La Couvée (she/her) is a writer and poet with a love of wild green spaces. She resides in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada on the territory of the Liǧʷiɫdax̌ʷ people – the Wei Wai Kum, We Wai Kai and Kwiakah First Nations, and is dedicated to conservation efforts and exploring the great outdoors. Her poems are upcoming in or featured by Pure Slush, Van Isle Poetry Collective, Island Writer, Paddler Press, Humana Obscura, pocket lint and WordSpring Society of the Arts. Find her at: janislacouvee.com Twitter: @lacouvee Facebook: JanisLaCouveeOnline Mastodon: @lacouvee@mastodon.online.
Jim Gambaro has been a writer, human service worker and various other things but has been a photographer since he picked up his first Brownie camera at age 3. His home in Western Massachusetts’ verdant Pioneer Valley provides limitless inspiration, as do his poet wife and two feline muses. http://jimgambarophotography.zenfolio.com/ Facebook: Jim Gambaro Photography.