I cannot say.

I cannot say anything about the oil bleeding and vomiting into the Gulf of Mexico, because I cannot say enough.

How much unwitnessed suffering of bird and animal and fish, oil in the small eye, oil on the ruined wing, wild nests gone and gone. How much loss for the people on the shore, and in their fishing boats.

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Detail, "Raising Morning" by Lou Rogers, my mother.