Emergence
Something about turning fear into curiosity, how comfort slows our growth as spring shares its delights, sparks desire, longing to know species names of rhododendron, hyacinth, meadowsweet, periwinkle, rose, magnolia, alder from another’s mouth. I need voices of different pitches and timbres, a tumble from the linear of lived life into a cherished calm of chaos through a thousand seasons. In your luminous eyes, I hear you building a world: azalea, spiraea, muscari, vinca, helleborus, magnolia, alnus, a reminder that not all changes. Look for the familiar in the sprouting and blooming for when the fireflies come we will go to the meadow where all will be shaken
light show of magical flashes
a dance you know in your body
you, too, shine
In our dream band, on tongue drum:
Kathy Kremins (she/her) is a retired New Jersey public school teacher and coach. Her debut full-length collection, The Curve of Things, is published by Cavankerry Press (2024). She has two chapbooks of poems, Seamus & His Smalls (Two Key Customs, 2023) and Undressing the World (Finishing Line Press, 2022). She is the author of An Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Nawal el Sadaawi, and Arundhati Roy (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010). She works as an editor for NJ Audubon Magazine.
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