Why Did the Deer Cross the Road?
To think that a deer a road has traversed
has it all backwards,
upside down, reversed
Just as the notion renowned
that white men own this land,
when
for millennia
Others loved here first.
We have robbed and raped
Fracked and plundered
until our shorelines
are daily
sinking down under.
What have we gained
below or above
but a desti…