"Clean" Energy

This is something I was working on a while back. It's crap...I know it is, but I can't seem to write anymore. It is the voice I have found and now I feel mute. It scares me. So here is something....crap and all....just cuz. Photo is kinda cool. Taken with iPhone and the 8mm camera app.

They sprung up like weeds

somehow perpetuating themselves

through their mechanical organs,

hard birthed with heads like that!

And the hillside

now littered

with alternative machines

looks ugly and unseemly

like Tommy James yard

after we forked it

The birds

confused by white wings

lulled by the hum

move upstream

like salmon

against

drop

one by one

leech their blood into the fields

iron fertilizer

for green metal

(Commentary: 5,000 windmills dot Northern California's Altamont Pass. It is adjacent to the densest nesting ground for golden eagles and directly in the migratory path of red-tailed hawks. As many as 4,721 birds a year are killed by this alternative "clean" energy source. I once thought of windmills as beautiful. I took the photo above at a roadside farm along Hwy 88.)



Altamont Pass