Lately, musician Sara Pajunen has been composing Mine Songs: Sounding an Altered Landscape. https://minesongsmusic.com/ She has been recording sound and video in areas near mining operations and at harbors, and she uses this collected sound in her violin compositions. It's beautiful work.
I have a poem published at Cortland Review, "Boundary Waters." In this excerpt, I allude to the extraction of minerals in the northern Minnesota landscape.
a tail flick of a fin
among the sunken
shoulders
in a vein of ore.
To take from another body
is a question
answered by loon...
There is a tension here between the environmental quality and economic development in the form of taconite and iron mines. In order to sustain our lives, there is a balance we need to achieve between economics and environment.Read the entire poem at http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/60/packa.php
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