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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
Water Pressure
This poem reveals a cosmic force, stirring the soul, unleashing imagination and terrifying human violence
June 15, 2022
I am fall-out from the storm
of dust, gas and shock waves
when a star is born, but my courses speak
to new understandings of the soul.
My ruffled means threat
when a young man lifts an AK 47
and gives his life to jihad.
I am the inside appearing outside,
the Anglo Saxon for tempest
and imagination both at once.
I’m the place where you’re never
in place. You have to dive in.
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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.