Great Salt Lake, great vortex
and crossroads of hemispheric importance,
testament that water is life,
great oasis in a vast desert,
the Great Basin, for ten million birds
who rest in mysteriously beautiful ever-changing light,
the great and complex web of home
for 330 million species who continue to live
as they have for millennia, because of you,
your great life-giving waters.

Note from the poet: I make poems that recognize all knowledge and sustenance comes from the land, that praise the more-than-human world, and question the social relations that are destroying all that sustains us. I believe the Great Salt Lake is critical for this region of the west to remain habitable.