• We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

    Dana Gioia: We offer you the landscape of your birth -- 
Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. 
We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth 
For killing what we cannot even name.
    Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.50, Macmillan