Picture THE SCENE as sapian
toil and settlement falls
to waste; unloved, exhausted,
soiled. Now Nature,
as DIRECTOR,
as god,
alone,
creates…
ENTER (in spiked chariot): Urtica dioica,
a.k.a. The Nettle,
humblest of warriors
From earth’s iron, straightened,
in stinging ranks of he and she,
their and her shoulder
to shoulder alike, they rise
All rheumatic custom blistering,
so all sclerotic, stung—
with sharper energy,
quivers, galvanized
and
ACTION:
Poem by Louder Than The Storm writer Kyra Pollitt
