3 selected poems from a collection of recent poetry written by Kathryn Waddell Takara
I
Naked
Falling from the sky
Diving into the global Sahara
Earth desert
With 4 directions, 4 winds, 4 seasons… sometimes
Water-swimmer
Silver-green islands and continents call.
Crashing from the fiery west
Metallic and full of fears
I challenge within
Unnecessary talk
Unmitigated efforts.
Cooling down to balance breath
Yin and yang.
II
Who are you?
An empty mirror.
Where am I in time?
Varietal, multiple histories, blending
Exotic interconnectedness
The land of allurement.
III
Freed intersectionality.
Kimberly Crenshaw labeled this insight
Decades ago conceptualities
Connectivity of race and relationships
Women and history
Poetry and geopolitics
Chronicled
Movements to certain solutions
In service
In words
In seeing and understanding
Within a context of comparative Nature
Varietal suffering
Different dancings toward democracy
Illusions conjure deceptions
Caught in razor crags.
Sixty-seven days after departing Flores Island in Europe’s westernmost waters, the schooner Heimdall and her stalwart crew has finally arrived at the mysterious Isla Socorro in the Revillagigedo Archipelagoes. The discoveries they make are astounding