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To Move the Earth

from Lookout by Kaley Lane Eaton

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The sequoia on Aloha
Watched the hill become a cliff
And the salty water flowed
And made peninsulas from isthmuses

The mudslides held together
From the Himalayan fruit.
She’s invasive - growing wild and getting
Blood on our boots.

The redwood at the high school
Stands alone above the rail
Growing rings at a clip
But still slower than the youth jail.

Dropping needles on the asphalt
As developers stand by -
Waiting for the prices and the children to get high.

We don’t know how to live here
Even though we were born here.
Ancient seeds that were sown here
1000 years ago
Risk suffocation
From our atmosphere
They can’t work hard enough to breathe away the mess that we create.

The hemlocks of the freeway
Just south of downtown
Backlit by the mountain
Sheltering my friends that need the

Makeshift homes of plastic
On a public patch of grass
Branches more reliable
Than property and cash.

The oaks have always been here
Even now they line the streets
But the overstory’s growing back
Growing back the habitat

I’d give up all the concrete
to the mushrooms and the roots
If I knew we wouldn’t kill it all
To make the dream come true.

The forest in the front yard
Full of firs and yews and spruce
Planted by some hippie kids
In 89 - and soon it will

Replace the grey McMansion
With mahonia and ferns.
God will always win unless
The flippers get there first.

But the Douglas firs can see the future.
They knew it all before we got here.
Imagine how time moves when you’re
1000 years old
And if you thrived before the hills were clear?
A century’s enough to heal the wounds that we create.

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from Lookout, released March 15, 2024

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Kaley Lane Eaton Seattle, Washington

Avante-garde classical composer? Freak-folk singer-songwriter? Postmodern jazz interloper?
For artists like Kaley Lane Eaton who paint outside the lines, there are seemingly endless boxes to check, but few name-brand comparisons. Joni Mitchell, Björk, Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson. Eaton’s “disconcertingly lovely” (Seattle Weekly) compositions are “unconfined by genres” (V13 Media). ... more

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