creative writing on environmental justice
Along the shoreline, the mineral trees have risen from the sea like jeweled hands reaching for the sky. Further out, long branches of coral have joined above the waves, spiraling together into bright red and blue and green—fingers crossed for some imagined future.
Today is the day the world will come. From the window, she can see the media unloading cameras, . . .
海岸線では、鉱物の樹がまるで宝石をちりばめた手のように海から立ち上がり、空に向
かって伸びている。さらにその先では、珊瑚の長い枝が波の上で繋がり、鮮やかな赤や青や
緑に螺旋を描いている。
今日は世界がやってくる日だ。窓から見えるのは、カメラを降ろして取材場所を決めな
がら、彼女の到着を待つ報道陣の姿だ。
漁師たちの船が樹の周りに集まり、網やかごを海に投げ入れるのを見ながら、準備をす
る彼女の隣には夫が立っている。わずか3年前、この海にはかつて地域経済を支えた魚や牡
蠣がいなくなり、生態系は崩壊寸前だった。しかし、彼女が開発した塩水電解法と生物工学
に基づくサンゴ礁の建設は、その状況を一変させた。波の下のどこかで、鉄筋や金網のミネ . . .
Aside from water, aside from sailing, killings
and results of counting steps,
in pursuit of danger as well as familiarity
of gestures shielded from view by dayandang trees.
The season’s too cold for leaping
to conclusions on whether constellations are drifting farther
away from us. Doomsday cultists are coming out of the woodwork
these days, crowing about . . .
Bukod sa tubig, bukod sa paglalayag, mga pagpatay
at mga resulta ng pagbibilang ng hakbang,
pagsunod sa kapahamakan gayundin ang pagkilala
sa mga galaw na itinatago ng mga dayandang.
Malamig ang panahon para sa paglukso
sa mga konklusyon kung dumidistansiya
ba ang mga konstelasyon. Parang nauuso
na naman ang pagmimiron sa mga signos
ng pagbabalik ng Panginoon. . . .