This poem is taken from my third collection, "Midwood," which grew out of poems like this one—short lyrics with long lines that I drafted early every morning, most days, in the first year of the pandemic.
Jana Prikryl on "A Banquet" |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Rita Wong (Vancouver, BC, unceded Coast Salish territories) on Ecopoetry Now
"In the context of a colonized society that reduces freedom into superficial consumer choices or bluntly eliminates that freedom through systemic violence, writing can question unjust hierarchies and unthinking habits that need to be reconsidered. It can make space for the imagination to move swiftly as dragonflies at dusk, or as easily as otters floating affectionately together. It makes room for a world where every creature has a place, every life form matters." |
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