Contemplative in the Mud

No Alarm Here

1–2 minutes

Benjamin Embley

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For COP28

The Mekong flows through my bedroom;
The Ganges pounds hard at my door;
The Andes birth cumulus roofs;
I sleep just a little bit more.

The LA roads of my nightmares,
Trash bins in Kuala Lumpur:
What do we do to our Sister?
I sleep just a little bit more.

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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