The Osprey

The Osprey

I watched Mom type the letter,

she typed Sooo fast!

She was protesting DDT,

A pesticide of the 1960's.

Was it the same sweet cloud

from the truck that killed

The Skeeters?

The cloud we kids would run in

and inhale deeply,

as the truck spewed out the

giant cloud trail?

Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring,

Before Internet, and social media,

and before my Mom wrote that letter.

The DDT went into the fish and water

and made Opsrey eggs weak.

Osprey eat a lot of fish.

That is what the food chain is about.

Mom felt her pressures too, to provide for

and teach and care for children.

Yet she always found time to

Protest DDT

or send a poor person money

or teach me 

That we should 

Do the same and

speak up when something

is wrong,

or right.

Now the unintended consequence of banning DDT,

Is the overgrowth of Mosquitos,

Skeeters Midwestern lingo,

Which led to more malaria

What will the consequences

if a highly pressured gas line

in town

Ruptures?

Have hopes we can stop the pipeline 

and return to being

Beautiful old Monkton,Vermont,

and not slave to gas.

Every word I have written,

Has inside, the

tap, tap, tap tap...

Of My Mother's letters.

 i keep seeing osprey everywhere...meg