Buffalo Revolt
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And what if word of mtr reached the buffalowho, trampled as they are by the 21st century,have not forgotten their homes in the hills…and they slipped past satellite camerasand motion detectors, to travel back—a pilgrimage coordinated not by cell phones,gps or mass emails, but by instinct,dodging traffic and people zombied by iPods.Imagine them commandeering the bulldozersleft sleeping on the hillsides at nightand driving them to targeted houses—starting with the manager and ceoof the mining company—and digging in,sending foundations crumbling,walls and windows crashing, demolishingthe privacy, the serenity of Home. [End Page 59]
Julie Dunlop was raised in Virginia and now teaches English at a New Mexico community college.This poem is part of a series of poems she has written about the impact of mountaintop removal mining, which she observed when visiting the town of Appalachia, Virginia, where her mother's family lived.
