A very patient person has been waiting some weeks for poem number 17. The topic was visionary – a caring and inclusive community. My challenge was to evoke such a place by bringing the abstract down to particular earth, lest I sound like a pamphleteer or propagandist rather than a poet. It’s been worth the struggle, and I’m glad because this ‘Carbon Project’ poem is a hybrid that also fits nicely into the Ghost Town theme.
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