Less Loveable Lifeforms Like Me
Celebrate saving the less charismatic Write odes to plankton, snail and flies, Our love of birds and mammals may be automatic, But we struggle to value lichen in our lives.…
Tag: poem
Advice for Girls Burnt as Witches in Past Lives
Advice for girls who wake up smelling smoke: the fire isn’t lit yet, And if they come to take you to the pyre scratch every bit of them you can…
Go Tell it to the Bees
Tell the bees that I have died, They used to say that if the hives weren’t told of a birth or death in the family they would leave the keeper,…
Solarpunk
I have spent so much time on war, The more time I spent singing for peace The more I became a piece of wasted fury, Maybe not wasted when anger…
How To Begin
When you walk into a psychologists office they offer you a seat a glass of water and a stupid question: how are you? Fine. How to begin? At some point…
Soil
My mother says when her hands are inside the soil that is how she goes to church. It took me two decades to really understand. It took me finding my…
Beginning again, again, again
This is a beginning that will be repeated again and again and again. This is a story that is being retold, the same but new Beginning is the oldest thing…
Late October
Persephone’s term begins the year’s dry lament Even while nymph’s paint gold dead leaves on the cement They force the evergreens to stay to cloak Demeter’s curse. That steals their…
Orla ní Dhúill 