Egg-Shell Thin

EGG-SHELL THIN Earth Day, April 22, 2011 
—Michael Cluff, Corona

The nuclear nightmare

is ongoing,

1945,

1979 Three Mile Island

to Chernobyl in 1986

Sendai, Japan 2011,

episodes that exacerbate

what we should have learned

long, long ago.....

The earth is a more delicate shell

than we are willing to admit

break it too often

it will someday

parallel the last day of

Humpty Dumpty.

Treat the thin surface

of this planet kindly—

too delicate to abuse

for sapien-centric gain,

this frangible Fabergé egg

a treasure of dainty beauty

a graceful, variegated wonder

so easy to injure

so easy to destroy.

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Today's LittleNip: 

"Look at my flower"

said the grinning toddler

holding up what she picked

Sad to see her mother say

"Oh get rid of that weed"

Why did she have to know?

and why shatter her world

her wonder, her joy

by telling her any different,

that what she found in the road

wasn't as good as a rose

—Michelle Kunert, Sacramento

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—Medusa, with thanks to today's contributors (today's photos were taken in Cameron Park by Sam the Snake Man)

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