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I Feel Close to Nature Too by Irene Christensen
I Feel Close to Nature Too
I feel close to nature too
earth moves in the hot sky
green leaves grow my hair
mountains erupt my skin
when you step on me I cry
I feel close to nature too
my eyes wash blue seashells
my face erodes sand from the shore
ground has no home for living
suffocating in a polluted candy corn sky
I feel close to nature too
writhing, dying in the heat
a red leaf dragon swallows
the trees growing in the night forest
I must preserve the charging planet beast
I feel close to nature too
About the Poet
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Eileen P. Kennedy is the author of two collections of poetry: Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015), which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Second Prize in Poetry from the Wordwrite Book Awards, and Touch My Head Softly (Finishing Line Press, 2021) which Literary Titan has described as “emotionally-charged poetry that explores life with observant poems that will appeal to anyone who loves inspired poetry.” It was a finalist for the International Book Awards in General Poetry. She lives in Amherst, MA with the ghost of Emily Dickinson. More at www.EileenPKennedy.com.
About the Artist
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Irene Christensen’s art is about painting as a magical act. Her images repeat and are transformed, as words and images in poems. She likes to maintain a sense of wonder in her art. That life is strange and quirky, and contradictory, that tragedy and comedy are not played out in separate theaters, but co-exist, side by side. More at ireneartster.wordpress.com
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