flattened mountain tops
yellow with bulldozers
gas vampires
suck streams dry
leave waters
bloated with toxic algae.
poisoned carp and mussels
new generations of children
nursed on West Virginia
Mountain Mama’s
polluted milk
my hybrid sits
on the highway’s edge
streaming John Denver
Bio:
Jay S Zimmerman came to poetry from his life as a visual artist, composing poems to go with his art, finding as much joy in painting with words as with other visual tools. He was born in the concrete caverns of New York, amid the trolley bells and sounds of subways, travelled south to Miami Beach and thrived in the warm sands and salt air dancing to the musical rhythms of Klesmer, Cha Cha and Bossa Nova, finally venturing to the dark soil, flat farmlands and rolling hills of the Midwest where his roots have grown and been nourished for over 40 years. He is an artist, photographer, psychologist, social justice advocate.
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