Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Scattered Thickets

Found poetry takes words out of context and rearranges them into a new story. From a description of Eastern Black Nightshade here is a found poem marking headaches of big cities everywhere.


Scattered Thickets   

         from Wild Berries & Fruit

        by Teresa Marine, 2018


Urban summers, hard and green,

grow in waste grounds and vacant lots.


Climbing, vining, cutleaf. Problems

ripen and cluster. It becomes tricky

to judge rocky ground.


Foragers avoid nightshade areas

and starred people entirely.


According to the database,

they are a separate species.



Marilyn Aschoff Mellor

         

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