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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
Water is Boundary
An owl's gaze watches as wind turns words to fear, secrets alchemized to an inquisition.
June 15, 2022
Who will remember you at the hour of your birth
when the wind changed and the owl in the chimney
swung back in its cowl?
What flows from you to me floods back
to make you afraid of everything you said.
Where have your own words been,
what is this owl-gaze into the soul,
the glug glug glug of between?
As if you knew too much
and all that erudition
has alchemized
to the Tarot Pack of the Inquisition.
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Ruth Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, in whose work “the journey is the stepping stone to lyrical reflections on the human condition”. She is known for her poetic explorations of migration, and of science; also for her involvement in music, wildlife conservation, and Greece, ancient and modern. She is Trustee for conservation charity New Networks for Nature and has served on the board of the Zoological Society of London. In 2013 she joined King’s College London, where she is Professor of Poetry.