Susan Griffin (1943–2025) was celebrated for her feminist views on the entwined fate of women, the destruction of nature, and the ravages of war. Her numerous 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 poetry collections include Bending Home: Selected and New Poems, 1967–1998. Among her many awards is an Emmy for the play Voices.

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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