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Two strange and gorgeous new poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney, with audio: "Fairy Ring" and "Formation."

Two Poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney Fairy Ring Imagine your mother died and as she died she fed you and you grew up as she grew down and she was not even a she but a skytunnel deepdown plosive accordion of darkness and light but she so you can understand where you are in the space of this imagining       imagine her soil serpentin...

John Balaban's "Crossing the Mekong Ferry, Reading the New Yorker" is the third of three poems from Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War reprinted in Terrain.org.

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One Poem by John Balaban   Crossing the Mekong Ferry, Reading the New Yorker August, 1968    Under the drilling sun, puttering past mud-tide mangrove swamps, the glossy cover struck my eye with its bursting yellow blossoms and grapevine leaves—nasturtiums or pumpkin flowers?—like those twining in tangles by our cotta...

Jaylan Salah Salman's "You Killed My Rosemary Garden" is the second of three poems from Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War reprinted in Terrain.org.

One Poem by Jaylan Salah Salman You Killed My Rosemary Garden Rosemary garden I planted my garden but the darkness came My garden evaporated white clouds fumes crack like crackling a dragon underneath a dome in a seashell but my garden of Rosemary Your feet trampled it that pain is greater than your anguish you are the brown, tarr...

Sean Mcclain Brown's "First Snow" is the first of three poems from Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War reprinted in Terrain.org.

One Poem by Sean Mclain Brown First Snow War has a shadow that lingers, like weather, like today, the cold crowded peaks and ferocious grasses in confusion. A profusion of frost and flowers searching, searching, their hearts fibrillating like a sparrow in a cat’s maw, and the earth, skin like granite, flecked by knots of new g...