An Interview with Maine Farmland Trust

1.
The blue-headed vireo pokes its thread of song
in and out among balsam buds erupting like
green caterpillars   the first red maple leaves.

Each hop   unpredictable   and yet decisive
its body knows just how to stitch shafts
of sun to recovering winter branches.

Today, forest management policy across Turtle Island (i.e., North America) focuses on frequent and large-scale disruption paradigms. The siting and scale of forest disruption practices in the Algonquian Northeast do not match millennia of Indigenous stewardship. Agencies and forestry employees devote great effort to promoting narratives that call for disruption of forests at various scales and stages across landforms.