“And it all seems to have meaning, even the broken machinery, The abandoned oil wells, the rowboat sunk in the ice of winter... Is this waste, this debris a necessary part of our energy?” PoetryEnergyPoemMeaningMachineryDebrisAbandoned Things Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke