In hopes of conveying the urgency of the current environmental situation and the implications for the future of life on Earth, Gritfish rekindles the awe and wonder that humans (once as children) instinctually felt toward nature and possibly encourage them to action so that we may prevent a horrible climate disaster or ecological catastrophe in the future. Nowhere does he better make his message of conservation and renewal more clear than in the beginning of his poem titled "A Sense of Place":
On a cold and crisp New England breeze, | |
Snow crystals sparkled through the trees. | |
Two young skiers shared a chair: | |
Chance acquaintance in midair. | |
"How rustic, simple, plain and droll, | |
In short, an unsophisticated soul": | |
I thus judged myself to be better, | |
College-schooled in art and letter. | |
Craggy outcrops amid the forest | |
Punctuated the slope below us | |
And in the valley far below: | |
Potato farms beneath the snow. | |
"A picture postcard sight," thought I, | |
But what a bleak economy." | |
"How do the people who live here | |
Endure an entire lackluster year?" | |
No rush or bustle, no city clamor; | |
No egotistic quest for glamour. | |
About the Author
Gritfish is a pseudonym for a physician with a love of nature, and Spirit of Chinook Looking at Us, his first publication, is an accumulation of poems and cartoons he has written over 15 years of environmental activism. He graduated summa cum laude in biology from Harvard College with the intent to go into fisheries biology; however, an interview with a Ph.D. candidate doing research for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife discouraged this career. Instead he followed the family tradition and went to medical school and became an orthopedic surgeon. In addition to his poems, Gritfish maintains an environmental Web site: http://www.gritfish.com.
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