The Wound by J. Kinsella

I had the chance of hearing John Kinsella read his poetry in Geneva

yesterday. He read from his last book called "The Wound" referring

to a highway that was supposed to be built through a large forest

in Northern Australia against which Kinsella and his ecological colleagues

in his university held rallies and marches. Kinsella is an ardent

ecologist who fights against deforestation, bulldozers, and pollution.

He has a dozen and more poems on bulldozers seeing them as

death machines that destroy everything on their way. Finally,

thanks to his boycott, the highway which he refers to as "The

Wound" through the earth was prevented from being built.

A great success for his movement that preserves our earth

and allows us to breathe the fresh air warranted by trees.