EGO UMBRA and 3 other poems
Natures spectral shadow rises, a fierce ecofeminist reclamation of memory and agency,…
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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
THE SPROUTING SEASON
Celebrating spring's vibrant rebirth, bitter chill yields to hopeful warmth. Earth's imperfect beauty blossoms anew
June 15, 2022
true, this isn’t paradise
But it’s the only
Paradise on this polluted Earth I’m aware of:
Bitter chill, freezing rainfall
Relents to arriving warmth,
Our feathered neighbours, some breeds,
Return from habitats farther away,
Gardens tend to sprout coloured
Soft petal treasures, complimenting soil & grass,
Barren trees, clothed
In new, burgeoning leaves and attached
Fruit, developing,
Ripening within their own soft succulence[ Apples, limes and oranges
Immediately come to mind ]
Out with overcast
Grey sky, dreary and spilling downpour seed,
In with the turning
Everything that grows to jade—
In with romance with the time of beautiful scenery
Reborn, between March and June
The sprouting season.
W: New Year’s Day 2022
[ For Nudi. ][ In response to the poem mother-tongue: the land of nod by lucille clifton. ]
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Dee Allen
Dee Allen African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California U.S.A. Active on creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 7 books—Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black [ all from POOR Press ], Elohi Unitsi [ Conviction 2 Change Publishing ] and his newest, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate [ Vagabond Books ] and Plans [ Nomadic Press ]—and 46 anthology appearances under his figurative belt so far.