Collected Item: “Being Known”
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Being Known
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Text poetry
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
As a Grandma in rural Wisconsin, I spend hours each week in my garden. After a particularly grueling day, these thoughts came... about weeds, Covid, politics and their relationships. I don’t know how to upload, so am just going to put my poem into the next box.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
I am acquainted with you now
with how you bend the wind,
change rain to subservient small talk,
stretch away from domineering others,
and create a web of wings and roots.
I recognize how plumpness
develops its own intensity and complexity.
There is something to say for
underground mapping - where to
propagate - pushing and squeezing
into the smallest centimeter
undeterred by the most powerful.
Making yourself known in the vast
mixture of diversity, you see that
some are given preference, and
coaxed into productivity
where value is determined ahead of time.
Being a weed in Ma’s vegetable
garden is dangerous-
much like living during a pandemic
which he says will
“go away on its own.”
with how you bend the wind,
change rain to subservient small talk,
stretch away from domineering others,
and create a web of wings and roots.
I recognize how plumpness
develops its own intensity and complexity.
There is something to say for
underground mapping - where to
propagate - pushing and squeezing
into the smallest centimeter
undeterred by the most powerful.
Making yourself known in the vast
mixture of diversity, you see that
some are given preference, and
coaxed into productivity
where value is determined ahead of time.
Being a weed in Ma’s vegetable
garden is dangerous-
much like living during a pandemic
which he says will
“go away on its own.”
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Kay B. Everson
Give this story a date.
2020-07-27