TE23 Double Feature

Gaia Warnings

Philip Burton

The New Forest Child Where is the forest

In all its megabytes of memory only pictures of a tree, just electrons dancing where the leaves used to be.

where children play? the new child gasped. Is it out back? Do you grow moss, blueberry, bay? Are there buckets and spades for needles, cones, acorns chips of bark? In the summer weeks of Stag beetles do kids stay and watch till dark? In the summer weeks of stag beetles do kids stay and watch till dark? Why have you put your forest away? Please get it out. It’s for children’s play. Oh no, we are terribly modern. Hardstanding and gravel yards are bare to ensure that each child stays within vision, is clean, and learns not to care. 111

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