Spring Week 10 BY ELLEN GIRARDEAU KEMPLER
Tag: blossom
Li-Young Lee – From Blossoms
Beyond the nationality and identity markers that divide us, Li-Young Lee's poem connects us with what occurs when our sense of being separate, solitary 'selves' drops.
Eloise Klein Healy – Iris
Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".
Jerome Berglund – Manure
Jerome Berglund's poem, Manure, grew from his own practice of sowing and harvesting where he was reminded that compost and dung are always essential to the process of growth and fertilization.