How to Market to Nature, Visual poem by Talia Blank, (2023).

How to market to nature.

We will squeeze trees in corsets
and put bees on business plans.
Make mountains have midlife crises,
untether their stability then feed them the dream that their view could always be better.


How about this approach?
Make rivers freeze
and seek advice.
A life coach can help them choose left or right.

Let’s make dry land the ideal
so that the sea feels the perpetual need to discover a cure.
While we pollute the air but make it their problem to find a way to be pure.

Reduce fruit to their juice and tell them they could always be sweeter.

Compare flowers —
Tell a daisy it’s not a tulip
and a tulip it’s not a rose.

Suppose,
we make the quiet moon shout and repeat to the sun, be brighter
until one day it burns out.

This way,
nature will start to pay.