Cicadaverse : poetry from the green chapel
Kyle MatthewsHere you'll find original poems harvested and forged from hours of solitude spent in wild places; poems that carry medicine specific to a local watershed; medicine meant for human and more than human ears.
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Nostos
What you had, pilgrim, was paradise.
A sprawling seaboard garden
walled by woods and rolling hills
within reach oceansong.
What you had you praised but not enough to stay.
The deep green moss that heals envy.
The skeletal fern sent fr...
Homeless
First, they took away the sky.
They collapsed it and packed it up
like a denim-blue circus tent
and wheeled it away, leaving white void singing behind.
Second, they took the country
out from under our feet—rolled it up in great carpets...
Orphan Psalm
Between earth and heaven
I walk, an orphan.
I walk boldly toward my calling.
Redwood trees, cathedral columns
that bolster the bluest skies,
return me to my singing skin.
They whisper: “Listen…Listen
to the sobbing, soft-bearded clou...
Gentle Homecoming
The way I would take
if only I could
winds between the thorny greenbriar
and the soft-topped Turk’s Cap. I would be
sensitive to all interweaving leaves.
The way I would take
if only I could
weaves between rows of orderly Privet
an...
The Well of Failures
In dull April doldrums
I gather my many mistakes around me
like a charm of hummingbirds.
Each one opens a floating door in space,
a nimble, winged threshold—
each one offers a tiny, unlikely chance
to bound beyond the sordid cattle ru...
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Raised in the mist-bathed redwood country of Norther California, my life has become a prayer pilgrimage across the Southwestern states of the U.S. since being lifted and carried like a dandelion seed from my hometown in 2021.
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