Poem: We Moved So Fast Through Our Last Days in the Holocene

Our worry hurried us, whether or not we knew.

We tried to slow ourselves, to break the spell of rush.

But even that felt urgent in the imminence

and so we hurried to.

How we tried to outrun our undoing.

How trying hurried it along.

About the Author

Donna Cate Henderson

Donna Henderson is a writer, artist and psychotherapist based in Maupin, Oregon. "We Moved So Fast Through Our Last Days in the Holocene" is from Send Word, her most recent collection of poems. For more, visit donnacatehenderson.com.