We survived Covid-19; we know what dying is and 2 other poems
Across altered landscapes, a fevered body trembles. Ecofeminism and Memory confront deep…
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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
A poem on graveyards
A desolate winter scene: graveyards, quiet decay, where death finds its own cold, stark beauty
June 15, 2022
Leaves have fallen and lie buried
like chocolate flakes in a cup of milk,
like dead meat in sub-zero temperature,
like a grove full of bears hibernating.
I shall write a poem for this day,
of trees that were always brown,
like decaying lichen, a sore wound,
and snow untouched by the Sun.
The world is a giant ice cove,
its posthumous whiteness making
the bed where volcanoes rest,
extinct as dead fish in the sea.
I will write a poem on graveyards.
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Pallavi Padma-Uday
Pallavi Padma-Uday is a writer, journalist and business historian based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2021, she was recipient of a writing grant from Centre for Creative Practices in Ireland, supported by the Irish Arts Council, for her second poetry collection. Her first poetry collection ?Orisons in the dark? is forthcoming in 2022. She is an alumnus of London School of Economics and is currently researching the evolution of social capital in Indian business in the 20th century at Queen?s University Centre for Economic History in Belfast. She tweets at @ecnhistorienne.