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In the Stubborn Motion of Faith By Vikki C. You choose not to name — the carp braiding oil-slow lakes, nor the act of cleaning up. Shun the shortest path between last love & forest cabin — beauty’s nailmarks scratched across the door. Lose yourself in glass stained by what a mind cannot hold. Milk clouds in a humming refrigerator. I drink & deny self-preservation. You raise a lantern — like a father’s hand teaching obedience & oaths, ancient brass rings the heart’s valium cycle. But each rotation rows us deathward. So I neglect — the folding of fires & blankets. Leave winter as bread. Follow green incense through a Kyoto temple. Believe the altared god is the same as us sleeping close, the sound of foaming oceans looping through our sheets. As if the real & imagined can lie together. The thinning cliff calls its griever near & Mother says – look ahead not down. So I choose eye-level. As distance. As dancing. As lifting of longitude. This wind-toothed philosophy isn’t penance or piety. Its vigil brights the arrow of geese — whose V is sometimes my name. And in landing, one hole-blown blade — might catch us with stormlight, unasked ____________________________ Exclusive to the Silver Branch series
A Sunday poem - 'In the Stubborn Motion of Faith'
From my @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #Silverbranch feature in June this year.
#poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #ecopoetry #ecopoem #ecospiritual
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Against Windfall What if a field & its lone mare were rescued from stereo lust, saved from a city's oildark vibrato? The throneless monarch inviting me thigh-deep. In spite of the last bend—lavender meaning girlhood outlives terror. All the world’s missives, hushed till the first pines rise white. To love the taste of you more matters like any mothered joy. I’m disowned, sun-stalked arabesque— the yolk between brief wings, eyes of the hawk —raised to waves outside my common nature. Vikki C.
"In spite of the last bend—lavender
meaning girlhood outlives terror."
'Against Windfall' — a new nature themed poem.
Thank you for reading 🤍
#poetrycommunity #poetry #imagism #writingcommunity
#artistcommunity #ecopoem #ecology
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When A Whale Longs For Morphine In May, you declared it an art spreading as oil in saltwater, invading the instrumental. At cliff edge, we broke bread one last time, white flecks littering my lap like snow in Shangri-la — you joked. What else will I miss in paradise? How an ocean waves greenly, a hand gesturing to leave in ancient silence? How we lay in a temperate swell, anomalies obscuring the darkening scan? My dress blown high with delirium, cruising you to heaven, knowing June will come with fevered sleep, —our trade incurable. Men lean in, showing me how a sail doubles to swaddle our worth — how corners fold to retain the sky. And in going under, how exquisitely coral blooms. An endangered lung —still full. __________________________________ Exclusive to the Silver Branch series
"June will come with fevered sleep,
— our trade incurable."
'When A Whale Longs For Morphine' – an eco-poem from my @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch suite.
Read the full feature here: blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1
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#ecopoem #poetry #ecologies
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'Simple Desires' by Mary Robles in Grain Magazine
"Her hipfuls of lace bind together pockets of injured time..."
This exquisite poem 'Simple Desires' by Mary Robles in Grain Magazine ❤️
#poetry #nature #ecopoem #posthumanworld
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"The Sea, the Sea".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #ecopoem
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Silver Dollar Lake | Vikki C. The first love—removing our belongings. Entering her virgin face, silver glossed over trauma, rewilding worth. Her hours counter-rippled avoiding all human measure. For what floats blooms jaded, koi braiding through who we were. A half-past radiance, motioning yes to where a heart was. To call moments up whole, who'd remember how to count them? The last return, scrim of swallows across dirty windshields, —small frames lifted in a sudden gust. The coming language, a borrowed view, backwaters adored without us.
A new poem 'Silver Dollar Lake' — inspired by the geological phenomenon that is this natural wonder in Colorado. Part of a series of waterborne poems in the making.
Thank you for reading 💙
#reflections #ecopoem #ecologies #ecopoetics
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Thrilled that @osmosispress.bsky.social are featuring my film / text / textile poem 'Signs on leaves' today at osmosispress.com/2025/05/04/l... !
#filmpoem #ecopoem #ecopoetry #textilepoem #textileart #aeneid #sibyl
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MAY’S AUTHORITY | Vikki C. May lies full & empty of concern. Says to be woman, is to extend the hands long as tulips, as citizens askew between society and dirt. May commands labour plucked among riches, daylilies eclipsing clover till I have no way of tracing the names of my traitors. May is the hourglass half tilted for a man’s pleasure. Hearing the train’s music before seeing it slice the heartland —is a lesson in reaching uncut. Arriving via astonishment, news flashes, & catalogues of light. Appealing with a bright dress & ambition. Unafraid the bees misread the limbs, the nectar premature as all budding grief. May is an experiment— sticky-lidded bell jars in a radioactive field, watching the young enter the world half blind. And I kneel, mouth stuffed with seeds, giving away each child— to the rocks, to the thirst of a smothered city. I am his oath to riot. To will & swallow the sting of their new language.
"May lies full & empty of concern. Says to be woman,
is to extend the hands long as tulips, as citizens
askew between society and dirt."
A new poem MAY'S AUTHORITY by Vikki C.
#NationalPoetryMonth: Day 29 💙
#poetry #ecopoetry #ecopoem #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
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A poem entitled 'The Acorn Barnacle considers Attachment' I floated the ocean found food and grew I was a spherical being open in all directions moving by setæ up to dark down from light. I have moulted to Cypris now: I seek the plane the flat—rock or anchor-chain I seek a place—select— cement my head-plates on digest my brain. Here is separation from the ocean farewell to swimming with family a start to the glued-on life an end to speculation and fear, Unattached being.
so I polished up my poem for #PromptCombo #Attachment after skipping the doctrinal ones :-) Thanks to @rfsmith.bsky.social for this prompt that kicked my brain into action. #poetry #ecopoem
'Consider the Acorn Barnacle for they neither plough nor reap, they just catch food with their legs'
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Thrilled that my #ecopoem "Nothing" is accepted to be published in Issue 7 of VILAS AVENUE. 🖤 #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky
vilasavenue.com/about/
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So proud that my #ecopoem "No Rain for Seven New Moons" is published in Issue 13 of The Tiger Moth Review of Singapore! #ecopoetry
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So happy that my concrete #ecopoem I wrote in an #ecopoetry workshop with Sean Hewitt is published & featured in Everscribe Magazine 🤍 #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrysky #skypoets
everscribemag.com/monarch-butt...
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So happy that my #ecopoem "No Rain for Seven New Moons" has been accepted to be published in The Tiger Moth Review of Singapore! #poetry #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky
www.thetigermothreview.com
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A LITTLE CRIMSON IN THE WATER Vikki C. Because I might love your wounds, I abhor the old adage about red skies (day or night) — we end with the same skin. For I was born with a condition between my ribs —a land demarcated by a radiating sickness, the warmest tear stings in consolation. They give us three months; your hands already tremble. The camera weighs a grave. Every face you photograph, a haze you substitute for prayer. They peel back the layers of your crown to find genius is a swell of molten honey. Bees dropping as lead syllables into your chest cavity. By dusk, you learn a hive’s crackle is proof of burning. — the love scenes explicitly cut out. I listen in the darkest room: viscera pressed to the base of rupture. A fever breaks, fells the last sequoia, erases the pleasure of flowers in a light rain. I forget the cool green of a lake before my feet enter. You only remember the split and some great reactor. Later, treating this terminal sickness—with more of its cause.
Today, sharing one from a forthcoming hybrid collection on eco-crises, posthumanism and post-world visions.
A collaborative @icefloepress.bsky.social book: Poetry by Vikki C. with beautiful visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social
"A LITTLE CRIMSON IN THE WATER"
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Acceptance news! :) My #ecopoem "Monarch Butterfly" is going to be published in the Pulsus Litterae issue of the beautiful @everscribemag.bsky.social 🤍 #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #ecopoetry @writingcommunity.bsky.social
www.everscribemag.com
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🍎 And here is a #ecopoem one my students made for local #writing contest on the theme of clean water.
youtu.be/9g-ViQFdtTE?...
#SDG #edcampnj
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🍎 Here's is an #ecopoem I wrote abt Barnegat Bay.
youtu.be/F2pLIjYh3x0?...
#sdg #climatechange #edcampnj #poetry
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'Skin Deep In What We Cannot Own' by Vikki C. - published in Ballast Journal, issue 2.3. #ecopoetry #poetry
Sharing an #ecopoem 'Skin Deep In What We Cannot Own' by Vikki C. – published in Ballast Journal, issue 2.3. @ballastjournal.bsky.social
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I've written a new #ecopoem for #NationalPoetryDay – 'Coal Mine Canary Requiems' – counting the cost of our carbon-profligate ways.
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co44...
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Science Museum Group. Canary resuscitator. 1930-635 © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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A branch white/blue colouring placed on a royal blue - dark blue background with shadows. It is very craggy, gnarled with many offshoots going in different directions, curved, looping, a kind of natural structure, a writing. A visual poem, an object poem, an eco poem.
Beside You, A Writing (2024) #objectpoem #VISPO #Blue #Bones #Coral #ecopoem #art #parched #ocean #desert #poetry
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