Poetry Reading: NO MOW MAY, by Jonathan Memmert
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Narrated by Val Cole
POEM:
Grass grown tall green slicks drizzle wet,
new planted seedlings shakily take hold,
crumpled mulch retains soil covered mold,
run tongued dogs
checked for ticks
lap water bowls.
And I am left with trowel and rake
to gather weeds in sunlit rain still cold.
How easily
I have
forgotten
where
to start
in nature’s language
to uproot
the untranslatable.
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