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Being Known
Title (Dublin Core)
Being Known
Description (Dublin Core)
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.
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.”
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Creator (Dublin Core)
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Type (Dublin Core)
poetry
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
09/03/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
09/07/2020
10/05/2020
Date Created (Dublin Core)
07/27/2020
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This item was submitted on September 3, 2020 by Kay B. Everson using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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