Pollen
2019; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 93; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.7588/worllitetoda.93.3.0047
ISSN1945-8134
Autores Tópico(s)Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
ResumoMarjorie Evasco left Manila to regrow roots in her home island, Bohol, in the Central Visayas of the Philippines. She continues to write in two languages, Binisaya and English, care for a garden, and plant trees. She’s committed to work for literary and cultural development and teaches graduate school. Visit worldlit.org to hear the author read her poem “Farol de Combate” in Binisaya. POETRY Pollen by Marjorie Evasco for Corazon Jamero-Logarta This is the time when the spirit has no need of teeth, and in the time it takes pollen to light, the wild world tames us . . . – Linda Hogan, “Gentling the Human” In the space of a fortnight a nasty cough took lodgings in my lungs, I curled fernlike in bed, not to sleep, but to keep awake to the motions of poetry throwing filaments of light, the way a resident spider brings bright symmetries to being from its almostinvisible body. These slow motions the orange jasmine in the front garden also musters out of its two-and-a-half foot trunk, shivering in the wake of the northerlies blown across the steppes of Siberia to Southeast Asia, as if it knows near blossoming time has come, its clusters of white already in the arc of dream, the gold flecks riding on that morning fragrance of sun, or on the legs of a drunken worker bee. It is possible to sense this now a chrysalis, the gathering strength needing the full dark softness from which to unfurl, bear new fire. WORLDLIT.ORG 47 ...
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