RESURRECTION OF THE TREE OF LIFE: A soundpoem, for Owenuma BLUE SKY...

IHSV In Hoc Signo Vinces / In this sign you conquer // A saying that horrifies me, carved into 🌲 STONEPINE crucifixes in the #ALPS It took me decades to see its meaning …. RESURRECTION OF THE TREE OF LIFE Let us take suffering down from the tree of life. A half-naked young woman rip starts her chainsaw above her head, gives it a rev, and in a few seconds brings the wooden cross and two thousand years of Patriarchy flat on the ground. In this sign you conquer In Iraq, a helicopter gunship murders in cold blood a group of reporters, while those who leak the film to the press remain in prison. In this sign you conquer. A young Nimipoo boy is arrested four times trying to escape Mormon terror in Salt Lake City and return home to his own language and people in Montana. In this sign you conquer. Praise be to you my Lord... The Pope convenes leading scientists from around the world to combat in one breath both Poverty and Climate Breakdown. In this sign you conquer. A young boy cuts his name into the hard gray wood of the dead stone pine. Fifty years later he returns. The climate is in ruins. The country is in ruins. The mountain forest flourishes. The streams and rivers flow clear. He touches the four letters, separately,, one by one, and speaks not a single word. Composed and recorded while working on my COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN:— Climate Breakdown in Whitebark Country project, Upper Pine Lakes, Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON IX.1.2021 IMAGE: White oaks (Quercus alba), keystone species of OHIO COUNTRY & the Tall Grass Prairie, after late Spring snow storm…