Kingsbrae 25.4
25 June 2017
Middens by Jarea
Garbage dumps they are to us,
filled with childhood treasures,
shaped flints, arrowheads, spear
tips, scrapers for deer hide,
so many castaway items.
Garbage dumps to us, maybe,
but for the Passamaquoddy
who first settled this area
and lived on this shore,
these precious middens
are anything but dumps.
They are guide posts,
lighthouses in the moonlight,
signposts to point the way
for wayfarers and wanderers,
at high tide, low tide,
and especially when the mudflats
bathe beneath sun and moon
and the channels twist and turn,
serpentine labyrinths in their wanderings.
Garbage: we dig up what they have left,
expose past lives to scientific theories,
and destroy their navigational knowledge,
the science they left behind.
If we examined our own garbage, what would we discover about ourselves?
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Interesting, isn’t it? But it’s how we find out about older communities. We classify them by their breakages and leftovers. For us: colossal wastage, very little ‘fresh’, and too much packaging!
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Today the story wouldn’t be complete without a look at my compost heap and my Community Living donations!
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Both vital pieces of information, or they will be when people from outer space visit this dead planet in a million years time!
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Actually it was 1988 and again in 2012 … on these two occasions they took Odymn and Daniel (aka the Slain) and took them to Meniscus. Ha!
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Jane: you are incorrigible and I love you a lot! Only you …
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