Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 grandmother's back, grandmother's back."
2 o-O-o
3 FRED KLEIN: My name is Fred Klein; I've
4 lived on Orcas Island for 26 years.
5 I couldn't begin to give you any additional
6 information than you've already received from the
7 scientists and concerned citizens, but by this time
8 I'm sure you know that the orcas and the waters
9 surrounding San Juan is a very special place, so I
10 offer some comments in the form of a poem.
11 "For too many days now I have not written of the sea,
12 nor the rivers, nor the shifting currents
13 we find between the islands
14 For too many nights now I have not imagined the salmon
15 threading the dark streams of reflected stars,
16 nor have I dreamt of his longing
17 nor the lithe swing of his tail toward dawn
18 I have not given myself to the depth to which he goes,
19 to the cargoes of crystal water, cold with salt,
20 nor the enormous plains of ocean swaying beneath the
21 moon.
22 I have not felt the lifted arms of the ocean
23 opening its white hands on the seashore,
24 nor the salted wind, whole and healthy
25 filling the chest with living air.
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