Poem of the Week

Susan Griffin is an author celebrated for her feminist views on the entwined fate of women, the destruction of nature, and the ravages of war. Her more than nineteen books of prose include A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War and What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows, and her several collections of poetry include Bending Home: Selected and New Poems, 1967–1998. Among her many awards is an Emmy for the play Voices. Griffin lives in the hills of Berkeley, California.

Unremembered Country

by Susan Griffin

Green

Trees, grasses, green things!

I am ill.
Memory sticks in me:
my blood
is thick.
Olive tree, this is a sick
being walking here
I cannot remember how
I love you, the breath
I give you is
spotted, oh greenness
a clot
seizes even
my heart, let me
lie down with you
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