The lives of
a few local trees
stand out due
to no movement
of musical leaves,
the shapes of
barren branches among
those illness hasn’t chosen.
—
Chad Norman from Nova Scotia in 1992 won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Memorial Award For Poetry. His most recent book is Parental Forest (AOS Publishing). His poem, “The Shoulds”, was included in the Lunar Vagabond Collection as part of a time capsule scheduled for lift-off to the moon in 2025.
The Nature of
Our Times
Poets for Science is a participatory project and installation exploring the connection between science and poetry.
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