Breena Clarke's Blog: A Few Whiles - Posts Tagged "annie-finch"

Spells is a comprehensive collection of four decades of Annie Finch's published poetry. The poems are scintillatingly sexy, are sensual, too, of course, and beautiful, snapping and crackling with pictures for the olfactory sense, the eyes, the mind, and the natural world with a reminder that the often elusive and always mysterious communication between human bodies is the natural world’s most significant and most delightful gift. The collection is a wellspring of flawless formal poetry.

Earth Day

All we want is to find the love
in the faces of the people we love.
All we need is to find the dark
in the nighttime sky, to lie down to sleep
in the darkness, where stars and moon keep vigil,
in the silence of a sleeping earth.
All we require is to wake to sunlight
in the morning, to simple sky,
to breathe aloud as the sky is breathing,
to drink the water of the earth.

All we need is to touch the planet
and find it clean where we were born,
where our ancestors breathed and planted,
where we live with the plants and birds.

All we need is to live with the memory
of a future we want to imagine.
All we want is to find the love
in the face of the planet we love.

---Annie Finch

Annie Finch is a Participating Writers at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, September 7, 8, 9th