Tartarus’s footless offspring who spray fans of glyphosate
    mixed with Styx water over farmland regularly,
technicians of os agrotóxicos for cash, I am weaponless

A pity the selfsame vehicle that spirits me away from 
factories of tedium should likewise serve to drag 
me backwards into panic, or that panic should erect 

Maidenhair borders the upward trail,
trims the margin braided green
and lives here—thrives—in the dark
beneath these arches, in this

I will not give in. I will grow more strange.
I will wrap myself around your ghost till the ghost
itself wants letting go, till it shimmers free.

Poor Aunt Midge, who: 1. refused to change
however times did; 2. spread a) expansive memories
through Maine and b) jarred orange marmalade on scones;

They faced each other on the oval knoll
and drew in the dirt the face they sat across from,
first with a finger and again with a stick

Timothy Donnelly reads a poem about how we survive an ongoing threat.