OCCAM’S KNIFE

OCCAM’S KNIFE

We’re at that stage in human lifeWhen we must pause to scan our fate,Refining thoughts with Occam’s knife.  The hour glass empties, greed is rife,We must act now, it’s not too late -We’re at that stage in human life. We’ll search for...
Afterwards

Afterwards

When the last human being has gone And the planet is free of their kind What will then happen? Will wounds heal and damage disappear? Will wild storms cease and ice refreeze At the Poles?  Will fires and floods go away? Will evolution try again, as our poisons fade?...
A RADIOACTIVE LEGACY

A RADIOACTIVE LEGACY

Stern concrete structures stare silently out to sea At Sizewell, Dounreay, Trawsfynydd; And yet another four, Stock still behind barbed wire fences In a blossoming natural landscape, Tombs for graphite reactor cores, Untouchable for at least one hundred years –...