 Red Canna, by Georgia O'Keeffe (b. USA), 1923. A Poem for Georgia O'Keeffe The difference between flowers that fruit or not is only a nodule hardening to zucchini, cucumber, squash or pumpkin, who's to say from the first broad leaf? Even now in late September hugely orange arrays splay about the yard on hose mandalas rigged for fruit too late to come by. What's given is accounted for, well on its way to being eaten. Among the parasols of pumpkin leaves chipping sparrows peck for seeds. About us milkweed parachutes silk dancing as we catch the work, the word as light play. Patterns. How we toss to and fro still expectant mid-way through our lives. Almost mature, almost coming into our own. Seed potency bursting beyond hard casement through the boundary of design. Penn Kemp London ON performance poet, activist and playwright Penn Kemp is the 40th Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets and their 2015 Spoken Word Artist of the Year. As Writer-in-Residence for Western University, her project was the DVD, Luminous Entrance: a Sound Opera for Climate Change Action, Pendas Productions. Her latest works are two anthologies for the Feminist Caucus Archives of the League of Canadian Poets and the Guild of Canadian Playwrights, to be launched at the Writers’ Summit at Harbourfront in June. Forthcoming is a new collection of poetry, Barbaric Cultural Practice and a play, The Triumph of Teresa Harris. www.mytown.ca/pennkemp
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June 2021
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