It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
Apples are imagining themselves onto hillsides—pink petals stick out their tongues from the dark mouths of branches and the forest canopy ripens overnight until it pulses like a green heart. Spring frankensteins us all—softens our cyborg brains (Admit it: you were thinking about what mysteries your phone will sing out!) While your body turns like a tree toward the light. Reader, somedays it's just too much: powder blue sky, light wind stirring the leaves as if they are waving, no, beckoning me to root and join in. How could I not give in? Trying to find the song that’s buried in the soil.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an award-winning literary biographer and poet and former Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, CA. Her latest books include the biography Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and her poetry collection West : Fire : Archive (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2021). Her next biography, Done Dirty: Sanora Babb, the American West, and a Forgotten Literary Masterpiece, will be published by the University of California Press in 2024. She’s received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and Millay Arts. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and UC Davis and is the Poetry and Translation Director at the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
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