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"Forty-one years ago I bought a 40 acre farm. Ten acres of that farm had been industrial corn every year since World War II. When I took over that land and didn’t inject anhydrous ammonia into it it literally would not grow one single weed per square yard of land. Ten acres of bare lifeless clay.

Within 5 years I had it growing a full coverage of Korean lespedeza, a low productivity, acid tolerant, annual legume. Every year that legume died all its roots turned into life in the land. In another four years I got enough oats to grow on it to be worth hand harvesting grain and feeding to my horses. I returned the straw to the land.

Today it’s a forest." —Jeff McFadden via

Splooting redux.

"petition for thirty more years"

days of virulence & opium dreams
the ledge widens · but the whisper falls
we are here as on a hurdy gurdy
steam rises · from the standing cars

Lucifer Splooting.