The DAF blog aims to bring together a variety of voices and perspectives to speak to how we are adapting to disruption and collapse. We welcome contributions.
The year completes herself, “I’m done now.” The New Year comes to take over our world, to enter our bodies and minds. She might pop up over the hill, singing, Or she emerges gently through parting clouds, She might stride down Main Street announcing herself, We never know who she is, what she brings. But...
In this creative writing workshop, we will use the written word to express and celebrate the experiences and emotions that link us to the Earth. No prior writing experience is required.
Here with dirt beneath my nailsand sweat upon my heated brow,the sweetness of the Earth assailsmy senses with the sense of Now.
And something in my heart eruptsand brings a tear into my eye –how dazzling, shaking and abruptthe knowledge that this person ‘I’is vaster than the universeand...
A film poem by Janet Lees
Janet Lees is a UK-based poet and lens-based artist, and voluntary poetry editor* for the Deep Adaptation Forum blog. In one way or another, all her work touches on what it feels like to be human in these unprecedented times. Her poetry has been published in...
by Mark Causey
Your parachute did not open.
Don’t panic, it does not help.
Don’t waste what precious time is left
On anger and recrimination.
At this point, what does it matter who’s to blame?
It won’t change the simple fact that
Your parachute did not open.
You are flying,...
The bird tried to flutter away,Sounded like a flap and a snapThe wolf leaped just in timeTo make it sound like a chase prelude
The sensational stories that are woven nowFor the coincidental chase flap and snapA chorus of chirps and quirksNo recording devise for these mortal ones
Someone said...
A poetry film by Sarah Tremlett exploring the human/animal relationship on a personal and planetary level.
I Cannot be Human takes a stand against a human race that, through its leaders, doesn’t appear to be listening or solving the ecological crisis that overwhelms us every day....
It is not enough that wewrite these words,send thoughts & prayers,emoji hearts & tearful faces.What burns South todaywill flood North tomorrow.
It is not enough to watchprogrammes, sign petitions,recycle & reduce.What we produce todaywill choke us tomorrow.We must plant a new kind...
me sigues con amorsaid you’re going to Lisbonthe heart-shaped candy on my tonguelate weekends in a summer hazeby the pine trees, all the times wetook several transfers on the G line
in a dream
i know we never meant to fall outimminent you seem to beyou’ll hang the hearts black & dull as...
as i sat readingarticles and websites alldedicated to
addressing crisesof climate, communityand conscience in their
countless expressions, i heard an unaccustomed sound, as if someone
were typing, fingerby finger, on the porch roof. my heart leapt as i
realized it wasthe...