Convergence

Entering the expansive places

Human action may form incursions

Connecting into green spaces

As non-native species Invasions

By nature of our inquiring creature

Curiosity drives Intersections

With nature, what is the future?

Choices of opposing directions

We can choose to join the dance

Like two rivers in the Confluence

With extrospection of Circumstance

Or dam, resisting our interdependence

In noticing our out of balance days

Where excursions are overstays

In the science of climate underlays

May Creativity be our turning new ways

Consequences of our human choices

Reveal themselves in Convergence zones**

At the threshold of our earth time

May We stand in humility of Eco-tones

Blessed be our interdependence

May our creativity & humility

guide us in convergent ways

** convergence zone is an atmospheric region where two prevailing winds interact. The air and water flow conditions encourage accumulation, including not only precipitation but also the amassing of discarded plastics in the ocean.

this poem is inspired by the Convergence Zone exhibit at the Anderson gallery at Stanford University— The artworks in this exhibition bring together reflections on the human impact on bodies of water and how the planet responds with a spectrum of natural consequences.

Deborah Butterfield’s Three Sorrows (quake, tsunami, meltdown from Gretel Ehrlich’s Facing The Wave)