The Story of Place

Development...
Turns a place into space
Which is then face valued -
Merely sold for a sum,
Which can never be paid,
Nor ever undone. 

It overrides blandly
The call of the wild,
The wild nature places
We explored as a child.

Over tender reminders
Those great tractor-treads press;
There are few places now
Have escaped this ‘progress’.

And the temptation’s been always
To be taking, then turning
Memories to money.

But at last, we are learning.

-Ross Palmer