Category: Poetry
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The Catalina Mountains: Babad Do’ag I and II (with audio)

The Santa Catalina mountains, on the northern edge of Tucson, are one of the great loves of my life, and have helped to make me what I am now.
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Carcinogenic Optimism

A poetic reflection on the stubborn optimism of many (but not all) Boomers, despite the now unavoidable reality we all face.
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Saguaro Poems: For the Saguaros (with audio)

What good we could do for the saguaros, for the planet, may we only do it *now*.
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Saguaro Poems: ‘That cactus is so sturdy!’ (with audio)

The first of a series of Saguaro Poems (or 2, at least, for now), this one on the vulnerability revealed by the condition of being armed.
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Great Mother, What Can Be Done? (with audio) [updated]
![Great Mother, What Can Be Done? (with audio) [updated]](https://luccadanielgreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/pexels-photo-1276314.jpeg?w=1024)
A poet’s prayer to Gaia, the Great Mother, from my collection Poems for the Anthropocene.
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There’s a space inside (with audio)

The last of the love poems: The Big Heartbreak. It’s his birthday, and he’s been haunting me, so I’m feeling maybe a little spiteful.



