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What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In Ecopoetry Now, poets from Canada, Mexico, and the US engage in an ecopoetic conversation across borders. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the author and an excerpt from their essay.
fahima ife
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vehement in bayou winter they are
portal between here and
brass ether

 
signal between spore and star matter
opaque as nothingness
:: lungs open ::

 
hidden as seven human echoes
alive in bas du fleuve
lungs heaving

 
quiet as dense copper cortex
or aerial trees they
ground and

 
leave as air fornicates an open
out run fear's frequency
wayward as

 
ecstatic wind moves as nothing as
seventeen seventy-seven
intimate

 
series of secret runs in winter
porous human { poor as
blackness }
from the book MAROON CHOREOGRAPHY / Duke University Press
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fahima ife (New Orleans) on Ecopoetry Now


"That I required a desert to write poetry of the swamp. I open another poetry collection, wander inside the wet density of word, step outside world as we know it. As if poets hold access to the mycelial inner-dimensionalities of Earth as we continue singing in its wake. Something about lack of old forest in the DeepSouth—as you say: the woods here are less than one-hundred years old, on a billions of years old planet, in a newly-contested country, written in the lineage of descent."
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"What got me excited about writing a version of the epic was that it exists in many forms, as prose, street performance, puppet show, sculpture, painting, comic yarn, and as verse. It's a story in constant production and flux! I set myself the challenge to make the story malleable—I wanted to oscillate it between these various forms."

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