Thinking about ecopoetics all the time, as we do now, I came upon this from Stephanie Strickland's collected works, How the Universe Is Made. I was struck still by the conflation of language, string data and enormous amounts of information with a glacier. From her V: Wavetercets / Losing L'Una (which is itself a reformulation of V: Waveson.nets / Losing L'Una) are tercets 223 and 224:
Does a calving glacier destroy information?
I'll give that a gray, but not silent, yup.
223
Words of others.
Lists and strings are fluid data structures.
The Glacier calving, enormous roar
224
into a gray silent sea,
turquoise
lining.
Does a calving glacier destroy information?
I'll give that a gray, but not silent, yup.
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