Poem for Spring
April of Many Leaves
The only reason for Time is so that everything doesn’t happen all at once.
-- Albert Einstein
What god transformed Time from the tight knot
of energy she was? Who calmed her wild
restless stir so that she stretched and steadied?
So that she found a reason to wait? Now
she knows how “slowly” feels, lets saplings
sprout, waits years for trunks to thicken, branch out,
bear buds. And the seasons she’s crafted.
Flowerings, then the sap’s retraction.
But sometimes, she still lets everything happen
all at once. When I left my hill this morning,
I could only hope for leaves, but as I head
ever south on this train, the mountain flings
fists full of green to the Sky where the Moon
tips her crescent hip to the Sun..
"Reclamation," published in 2005 by Ourstory Media, is Marcia's first book of poems.
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Marcia is a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective, a group of twenty poets who meet monthly to discuss their craft. Founded in 1993 by Mary Greene and based in Sullivan County, NY, the group frequently performs in Wayne and Pike counties in PA and Orange County, NY.
Visit the link below to see Marcia and fellow UDWC cohorts perform poems centering on the theme of life in a small town, works that had their debut at the 2007 DIGit Media Exposition in
Narrowsburg, NY. these unencumbered eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/UDWC
Links to more writing:
http://moondance.org/2001/fall01/poetry/breath.html
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/content/cb.asp?cbid=4478
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/content/cb.asp?cbid=5064
http://www.subtletea.com/nightstandmarcianehemiah.htm
http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa/ppa473.html#fp1
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2005/09/literarysupplement/arspoetica.php
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