Thank you to Mark Antony Rossi for publishing this poem in the February issue of Ariel Chart.

https://www.arielchart.com/2022/02/eco-echoes.html

Eco Echoes

 I can recall former days-

Below,

a clear fluid escalator,

rolling down rocks.

 Oh, I remember the blue, crisp, clear display of water,

 little fishes with shiny fins,

darting back and forth.

 

The future looking grim-

gray, brown, scummy liquid,

fetid, rancid,

 white globs floating on top of the pond.

I don’t want to know what those used to be.