ecopoem #7
in switzerland in ’54 I heard children on the playground chanting this singsong rhyme: ce qui plait
— l’escargot — ne plait pas a tout le monde! what’s pleasing to the snail does not please all the world! a truth worth chanting
though now belatedly we are seeing our need to please the snail the whale the
cod the bee the tree the soil plus all those micro-organisms upon whose
pleasure our pleasure and our survival are so entwined
© Jacqueline Jackson 2009
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2009.
