The Nature of Our Times

dear eelgrass

  • Ching-In Chen

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  • Misery Point Preserve, Washington

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          you your own wild

                    bright green sea

your own spindly heart

                    switchboard

                             of exchange and release

to sediment our

          fringe sanctuary

to hold our own habitat steady

 

This poem first appeared in Writing the Land: Windblown II anthology.

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Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems; recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and the forthcoming Shiny City as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member and Airlie Press editor.

 

  • ©2022 Ching-In Chen

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