CLAIRE MARIE STANCEK

industrialized farming practices, abuse and
solitude, secret domestic, agricultural
intensification, ground clearance, excessive
use of toxic chemicals and road traffic
deaths lacking snow cover

electrocution and airplane strikes shepherds
with guns ON THE GRASS UNDER
THE SHADE OF SOME HIGH TREES
NEAR THE RUINS

slopes and gorges and crags with patches
of snow :  ropes and
gore lacking snow
cover : some herb and grass
cover : range
and rearrange :

range size has not been quantified,
but it is not believed to approach
the thresholds for Vulnerable
under the population size
criterion lofty promontory, terminated
by a // summit whose / , impending
over waves / crowned // ruined tower

mump thing creaking
dripping mongrel
thing stray thing OTIS
TARDA GREAT BUSTARD
PHALACROCORAX CARBO
GREAT CORMORANT
cesspool thronging with distended skins, the
very pores of which will dribble moan atop
a heap of bodies a creature will stand on a
mass of leg stumps a gristle creature in
putrescence shake its scabs at wind its
words will make a quagmire listen by
magma words juice-water creature in
language contagion in

PICUS CANUS GREY-FACED
WOODPECKER ANSER ANSER
GREYLAG GOOSE

walking in the woods // hung on a
promontory ? overlooking the sea

it was a fine wild moonlight night come back
woods receding disclosed // summits of
the Pyrenees // distant USDRONE
missile strike

wide prospect of sea and land // sun now
setting Pyrenees
walked by moonlight come back

8 female 05 children 07 male all civilians

Two missile were fired Drone
on a private premise
in village [hunts from a perch, dropping
down to take prey from branches or the ground]
air of solemnity // so strongly
characterized the pile
;— mountains spiral summits of, touched
with a purple tint of, broken
and steep above
emptiness // forced back the gate, heavy
with iron work // creaked harshly