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Three poems by Pianta
“Air,” “Ethnobotany,” and “The Well We Drink From”
Pianta
Air
- sharks skirt you
- as you hold the line
- the eagle rays
- take conchs into their mouths
- consuming their flesh
- as bits of shell drift empty
- to the ocean floor
- the barracudas crosshatch themselves above you
- a finned ceiling of iridescence and teeth
- they follow light like the photosynthetic jellyfish
- that sway in drowsy pulses of pale translucency toward the east
- you allow yourself this drift
- as lettuce coral
- blooms below you
- submerged
- in this holy bath
- you discard whatever has followed you from the earth
- suspended
- for as long as the air
- can hold you
Ethnobotany
- viewing Morning Glory by Sopheap Pich, 2011
- I think about poems
- and sometimes it’s like that
- genocide may be what the world is doing
- but we try to feed ourselves and our children
- words that gather like clouds of rice
- accompanied by the skins of morning glories
- we try to feel full on what we say
- on what rises from the plate to our lips
The Well We Drink From
- water runs through everything
- changing the pulse of electricity
- from firefly
- to lightning intermixed
- with thunder
- it is silence moving
- the force within glaciers
- deliberate and translucent
- inching across the earth
Originally from O’ahu, Hawai’i, Pianta now resides in San Diego, where she writes, edits, and teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at San Diego Mesa College. Her work has appeared in Ekphrasis, Terrain.org, Bamboo Ridge Press, Istanbul Literary Review, Bloodlotus, and San Diego Poetry Annual, among others. She will be on the panel “After Experience Taught Me: The Cultural Landscape of the Creative Writer” in the Southern California Community College at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2016 Conference held in Los Angeles. She is currently editing several nonfiction books on a range of topics and is completing a novella.
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Three poems by Pianta
“Air,” “Ethnobotany,” and “The Well We Drink From”
Three poems by Pianta
“Air,” “Ethnobotany,” and “The Well We Drink From”
Pianta
Air
- sharks skirt you
- as you hold the line
- the eagle rays
- take conchs into their mouths
- consuming their flesh
- as bits of shell drift empty
- to the ocean floor
- the barracudas crosshatch themselves above you
- a finned ceiling of iridescence and teeth
- they follow light like the photosynthetic jellyfish
- that sway in drowsy pulses of pale translucency toward the east
- you allow yourself this drift
- as lettuce coral
- blooms below you
- submerged
- in this holy bath
- you discard whatever has followed you from the earth
- suspended
- for as long as the air
- can hold you
Ethnobotany
- viewing Morning Glory by Sopheap Pich, 2011
- I think about poems
- and sometimes it’s like that
- genocide may be what the world is doing
- but we try to feed ourselves and our children
- words that gather like clouds of rice
- accompanied by the skins of morning glories
- we try to feel full on what we say
- on what rises from the plate to our lips
The Well We Drink From
- water runs through everything
- changing the pulse of electricity
- from firefly
- to lightning intermixed
- with thunder
- it is silence moving
- the force within glaciers
- deliberate and translucent
- inching across the earth
Originally from O’ahu, Hawai’i, Pianta now resides in San Diego, where she writes, edits, and teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at San Diego Mesa College. Her work has appeared in Ekphrasis, Terrain.org, Bamboo Ridge Press, Istanbul Literary Review, Bloodlotus, and San Diego Poetry Annual, among others. She will be on the panel “After Experience Taught Me: The Cultural Landscape of the Creative Writer” in the Southern California Community College at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2016 Conference held in Los Angeles. She is currently editing several nonfiction books on a range of topics and is completing a novella.
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