O Snail
By Jane Hirshfield
Under the Svalbard ice cap, Carboniferous-era coal seams.
A good farmer rotates her crops.
The crops don’t complain. It’s the fate of stalks and forests to vanish.
Last year’s fires: Australia, Portugal, Greece. This: California.
O snail, wrote Issa, climb Fuji slowly, slowly.
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