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George Northrup

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Where we lived, no factories
tainted the river with industrial waste
or scorched the air with toxins.
In the innocence of childhood
I saw nothing worse
than my mother shaking her dust mop
from the window on Saturdays,
trying her best to put the dirt
that had sailed in on a breeze
or walked in on the soles of shoes
back where it came from.
Likewise my father, finding a spider
in the basement, would return it
to the enveloping mother we called
Nature, who flourished outdoors
all around us, but whom, for some
peculiar reason, we rarely invited in.



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