“Small Buried Things,” Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change (2021)

Frack

first the bakken     then the three forks formation     even deeper

the oil patch, they call it

two miles below the surface

oil embedded in shale

late devonian     remnants of the anoxic sea      the coastal carbonite layer

deposited when the middlewest was inner ocean

“Small Buried Things: Essay on Fracking.” Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change, edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Tom Kerns. Oregon State University Press, Spring 2021. 108-114. [link]